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President-elect Joe Biden says he “wouldn’t hesitate to get the vaccine” and that “the only reason people question the vaccine now is because of Donald Trump” pic.twitter.com/QU6Aiem3KV

— Bloomberg Originals (@bbgoriginals) November 16, 2020

New: Biden announces top White House staff:
Cedric Richmond, WH Public Engagement director
Mike Donilon, Senior Advisor
Jen O’Malley Dillon, Deputy CoS
Dana Remus, Counsel
Steve Ricchetti, Counselor
Julie Rodriguez, IGA Director
Annie Tomasini, Oval operations director

— Bo Erickson CBS (@BoKnowsNews) November 17, 2020

Biden responds to Trump COVID adviser Dr. Scott Atlas saying Michigan residents should "rise up" against their governor's restrictions: "What the hell's the matter with these guys? What is the matter with them?" https://t.co/kFrcNHA9Vf pic.twitter.com/XvDp3Id6Sk

— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 16, 2020

Boom—the coronavirus downplaying coward Perdue declines to debate Democratic challenger @ossoff ahead of January 5 runoff https://t.co/WlGzeMRaQf #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/oMzJhzzUx7

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) November 16, 2020

Debate @sendavidperdue Declined Is Still On But With GA Senator ‘Represented By Empty Podium’https://t.co/YUjRbZSPgJ

— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) November 16, 2020

Karl Rove, Georgia senators worry about runoffs, acknowledge Trump likely lost – The Washington Post https://t.co/rtYY7IYoMw

— @mbalter — investigations and commentary (@mbalter) November 17, 2020

President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris will have a briefing tomorrow on national security, their transition says.

— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) November 17, 2020

NEW: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will receive national security briefings tomorrow— but not by government officials, as GSA administrator @GSAEmily has still refused to ascertain Biden’s victory.

— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) November 17, 2020

"Frankly, he hasn't been any help."

New York Governor Cuomo on Trump's response to the pandemic. https://t.co/1MPMem0Q7E

— The ReidOut (@thereidout) November 17, 2020

Sarah Cooper’s incompetent Trump lawyer sketch was so believable it completely fooled Colin Hanks. (Via @sarahcpr) https://t.co/W8sA0cbVjI pic.twitter.com/BgKO3aWx6b

— The Poke (@ThePoke) November 17, 2020

NY reported 54K positives so far in Nov, up from 48K in all of Oct

NY averaged 23 new cases/100K residents over last 7days. Up 115% from 2 wks ago

2.87% tests positive over last wk. Up 83% from 1.57% 2 wks ago

Average 1,743 patients hospitalized each day. Up 55% from 2 wks ago pic.twitter.com/Qw9gLvzPwd

— Marina Villeneuve (@ReporterMarina) November 16, 2020

Check out who won Staten Island. I guess they don't mind dying for Donald.
Biden v. Trump by %:
Manhattan: 84.5 – 14.5
Bronx: 82.5 – 16.9
Queens: 81.3 – 18.3
Brooklyn: 74.1 – 25.2
Staten Island: 37.6 – 61.6

— Uppity Woman Supports Ukraine! (@UppityWomanBlog) November 12, 2020

WHO tempers prospect of a coronavirus vaccine with warning of a long fight to come https://t.co/mdW03tPoqB

— Janet Johnson (@JJohnsonLaw) November 16, 2020

Breaking: Biden/Harris just became the first presidential ticket in U.S. history to surpass 79 million votes. https://t.co/9dMmSHHdVa?

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 17, 2020

GOP livid at Trump-backed troop drawdown

Rubio: “concern would be it would turn into a Saigon-type of situation where it would fall very quickly”
McConnell: “delight” to enemies
Rounds: “You can’t simply unilaterally draw down troops,” “serious mistake”https://t.co/AUqYIMLNgH

— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) November 17, 2020

A good question for Mark Zuckerberg when he appears before Congress on Tuesday:

Facebook says it does not allow a person who "advocates…acts of violence.”

Yet you’ve granted an exception to Steven Bannon, who advocates for the murder and beheading of Dr. Fauci.

WHY?! pic.twitter.com/Vv1rhn2VaT

— Sacha Baron Cohen (@SachaBaronCohen) November 16, 2020

"How many times is Steve Bannon allowed to call for the murder of government officials before Facebook suspends his account?" pic.twitter.com/VO9Y66AsNN

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 17, 2020

“They were satisfied with blind partisanship in anything that respectable society had banned, regardless of theory or content, and they elevated cruelty to a major virtue because it contradicted society’s humanitarian and liberal hypocrisy.”
—Hannah Arendt https://t.co/GqP5nkzDSI

— Windsor Mann (@WindsorMann) November 17, 2020

it's obvious you don't know jack. blm is an extension of the many activist groups, before, that fought for black lives. in other words, it did not start just a few years ago, you psycho. don't speak on what you don't understand.

— Bob …Shadoobie … Berry (@monsoon2112) November 16, 2020

Black Lives Matter is self explanatory.

"Defund the Police" sounds like "Defund Obamacare" and people think it means "get rid of the Police by not funding Police departments."

Stop trying to use Black Pain as a prop in your Socialist Agenda.

We're not your mascots.

— Afro Chingona-Excessively Black (@RealKHiveQueenB) November 16, 2020

Hey Glenn,

Good to hear from you. I’ve got a few questions.https://t.co/ehaIKfRntZ

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 16, 2020

There have been a lot of GG whatabouts & false equivalences but "I think QAnon disseminates conspiracies…but so does CNN" might just be the pinnacle. Truly amazing. (h/t @JO_clever_KE) pic.twitter.com/5x7ri1n72z

— Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 (@Wilson__Valdez) November 16, 2020

According to Michael Moore… pic.twitter.com/0X5yQ1E9L0

— Discourse Enjoyer (@CenterLeftyPOV) November 16, 2020

Why aren't you at Mitch McConnell's door?
I'll wait. https://t.co/W7ISub4PT8

— Receipt Maven (@receiptmaven) November 17, 2020

https://t.co/RfeVQZKmuL

— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) November 17, 2020

BREAKING: Trump-backing election conspiracy theorists cannot revive their lawsuit.

Appeal DENIED in Michigan.

Background, @LawCrimeNews: https://t.co/QcAkJd0Cr8 pic.twitter.com/v5fgpEJSqX

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 16, 2020

Ivanka is a narcissist with all of the pathological lying that comes with it – just like her father.

Their entire existence is about manipulating this very moment. This conversation. This situation.

So, they often lie in ways which they think win that argument…

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— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) November 16, 2020

.@LindseyGrahamSC spent the past four years covering-up Vladimir Putin’s hybrid warfare attack against the U.S. that benefited the GOP.

Now, we learn he tried to get a Secretary of State to rig an election.

When is this criminal going to be held legally accountable? https://t.co/9Km25pnRB0

— Alexandra Chalupa (@AlexandraChalup) November 17, 2020

What Graham allegedly asked here is simply criminal. Intervening with the top election administrator of another state (clearly at Trump's behest) to throw out a huge number of legally cast ballots to make the President win. You might as well ask him to falsify the numbers. https://t.co/6Wbb5tShSu

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 16, 2020

Emily Murphy, head of the GSA, recently sent a message to an associate — obtained by ABC News — inquiring about employment opportunities in 2021, a move that some in Washington interpreted as at least tacitly acknowledging that the current administration soon will be gone. https://t.co/jJJDhzvSxy

— Katherine Faulders (@KFaulders) November 16, 2020

Toss Atlas under the bus!

WaPo Ed Board: “BREATHTAKINGLY WRONGHEADED. Atlas is not an infectious disease expert, nor an epidemiologist. He continues to make statements that’ll cause more illness & death. He ought to be fired immediately.” 🔥🔥🔥 #COVID19 https://t.co/GPbEr4DTjZ

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) November 16, 2020

Among the things Joe Biden says he'll do on day 1 as president:

• Rejoin WHO
• Make DACA permanent
• Reverse Trump's corporate tax cut
• Rejoin the Paris climate accords
• Stop family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border
https://t.co/tA0aFmbaIX

— NPR (@NPR) November 16, 2020

Biden is expected to take a historic step and select a woman to head the Pentagon for the first time, shattering one of the few remaining barriers to women in the Cabinet.

Michele Flournoy is regarded by U.S. officials as a top choice for the position. https://t.co/XnLa34py02

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 16, 2020

Immediate Biden immigration moves:
⁰- Rescind Muslim ban
⁰- Deprioritize removal of undocumented immigrants who aren't violent criminals
⁰- Restore DREAMers program
⁰- Withdraw from agreements that shifted rejected asylum seekers to other countrieshttps://t.co/OKr9lvfLJZ

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 16, 2020

NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo: "Abuse of power is a virus." pic.twitter.com/OxcNV1aero

— The Hill (@thehill) November 15, 2020

The Black and Brown communities that were first on the list of who died cannot be last on the list of who receives the vaccine.

We cannot and we will not let that happen. pic.twitter.com/HTVkloT4Be

— Archive: Governor Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) November 15, 2020

Europe is ready for Biden to get started https://t.co/SoHuzKB5bk

— Mike Walker (@New_Narrative) November 16, 2020

Go #Georgia! pic.twitter.com/aIKcAWXjK3

— ❤️🧡💛ᗰia💚💙💜 (@mommamia1217) November 15, 2020

BREAKING: More than 600,000 Georgians have requested their mail ballots for the January 5 runoff elections.

Help elect @ReverendWarnock and @ossoff to the U.S. Senate by requesting your ballot today ➡️ https://t.co/xCyh7BhY3o. Happy voting and let’s get it done… again. #gapol pic.twitter.com/G65qB8NMpg

— Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams) November 15, 2020

We had a productive meeting today to discuss policies as we enter the next stage of the COVID crisis.

Thanks to @GovMurphy, @GovNedLamont, @GovernorTomWolf and @JohnCarneyDE for joining me. pic.twitter.com/KbAw3FOW5X

— Archive: Governor Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) November 16, 2020

"Biden has spent these early days as President-elect pleading with Americans to pay attention to the relentless surge of Covid-19" as Trump "continues to ignore the deepening crisis and touts the promises of yet-to-be-approved vaccines as his panacea."https://t.co/xl9KdRthEy

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 15, 2020

The production, distribution, and administration of vaccines in the coming 6-9 months will dwarf every other challenge we've faced in this pandemic.

The Trump Admin's continual refusal to allow the Biden team to start coordinating with HHS on this is absolutely villainous.

— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) November 15, 2020

Dr. Mengele here wants 213 million Americans infected with coronavirus and 1,385,800 dead to achieve his coveted “herd immunity.” https://t.co/fUOIJiQQfL

— Billy Corben (@BillyCorben) November 16, 2020

NEW: No ICU beds are available in Mississippi's capital city, Jackson. ICUs in other large cities are also full.

Only 12% of ICU beds remain available statewide as COVID-19 surges.

But Gov. Tate Reeves still hasn't re-enacted the statewide mask mandate. https://t.co/l5NPVB74rW

— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) November 12, 2020

"Things have gotten so bad that Doctors without Borders, which normally helps with medical access in the third world, has dispatched physicians to the U.S." https://t.co/OBh3YwRPgI

— 🏡 home (@alllocalpolitic) November 15, 2020

Minnesota Republicans told their own about a possible COVID outbreak on their side of the aisle. The Senate GOP chief of staff advised GOP staffers to work from home.

Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party members were not informed of the rash of cases. https://t.co/sdvU5GorDb

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 16, 2020

#Minsk This art was located on the Square of Changes and possibly is destroyed after yesterday’s dispersal. But the calculation looks pretty realistic:
“Communism + Fascism = Lukashism”

Source @euroradio #Belarus #StandWithBelarus pic.twitter.com/6tmIKrv5G7

— Voices from Belarus (@VoicesBelarus) November 16, 2020

Public pressure and lawsuits kept the USPS from handing Trump the election: Experts believe what made the difference was enormous public pressure, multiple lawsuits, scrutiny from courts, voters mailing ballots early, and legions of dedicated USPS workers. https://t.co/4WbYmGdjwt

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 15, 2020

Pennsylvania and the election probably could have been called on Election Night, but networks decided to wuss out because maybe the provisional ballots could lead to a massive Trump comeback. https://t.co/kssg13De8x

— Jesse Lee (@JesseCharlesLee) November 16, 2020

Everyone’s dunking on this instant hall of famer dunkaroonie but today @ThisWeekABC did a panel with newsmax conspiracy theorists who said there’s no way Biden could have won and instead of correcting them they just said well that’s what one side believes and 🎶 that’s the news https://t.co/pIbXXXdYuR

— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@MattNegrin) November 16, 2020

The worst thing about “Defund the Police” is not the electoral impact but the policy impact

We had an amazing moment of consensus in the aftermath of George Floyd that could’ve been leveraged for real reform

Instead we fed the forces of polarization & threw the consensus away

— Bill Scher (@billscher) November 16, 2020

Ok this is funny https://t.co/g7yRkVfZDE

— Joe Conason (@JoeConason) November 16, 2020

Me too! pic.twitter.com/rtYGIuVwOH

— Damien Owens (@OwensDamien) November 16, 2020

Dear @realDonaldTrump

You are #AmericasGreatestMistake https://t.co/u9dZ38uaup

— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) November 16, 2020

Trump hates the troops. https://t.co/XkvgkCOafH

— Robbie Sherwood (@RobbieSherwood) November 15, 2020

Trump campaign jettisons major parts of its legal challenge against Pennsylvania’s election results https://t.co/bZ2fmWdkGU

— Janet Johnson (@JJohnsonLaw) November 16, 2020

A Michigan lawyer for Trump's campaign filed a case in the wrong court. Lawsuits in Arizona and Nevada were dropped. A Georgia challenge was quickly rejected for lack of evidence. His Pennsylvania legal team just threw in the towel.https://t.co/yhqeiTnOan

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 15, 2020

Trump's campaign is downsizing and letting most of its staff go this weekend. https://t.co/ql17kfsYw2

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 15, 2020

I'll still have a job on January 21st, though.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 15, 2020

"More foreign leaders have so far acknowledged the outcome of the American election than Republican Party officials. Needless to say, this is not a good look for the world's longest-running constitutional democracy." https://t.co/itG4NIkOa0

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 15, 2020

Carl Bernstein: 'Time We Start Calling Out' Republicans Who Back Trump Publicly But Trash Him Off the Record to Reporters https://t.co/aOvlJe2J4y

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) November 15, 2020

The Confederacy & Trump.
Both lost, decisively.
But the same people keep celebrating them both. https://t.co/al87ElcEXB

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) November 16, 2020

Impossible to exaggerate how much real-world damage the right-wing epistemic bubble is doing. https://t.co/219aoPxu5C

— David Roberts (@drvolts) November 15, 2020