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@chittukuruvi4 @PVNNarayanan And the benchmarks set by the Modi Government in 2014 and the impetus in the continuity besides adding new goals to bring further #EaseIfLiving, and establishing an environment of participation with competition and equal opportunities for all has unnerved the Cong led Opposition.

@PVNNarayanan The pace and size of development and progress what India could not dream of before 2014 under such a prolonged Congress rule of decades and decades, became visible with efforts fructifying in 2014 to 2019 period. Add to it undoing of historical aberrations and blunders septic.

@PVNNarayanan Are not these reasons enough for d discredited & desperate @INCIndia & its appendages to shepherd d herd in organising protests to camouflage its own failures ? What else can one expect from stooges of a Dynasty, than 2create impediments, humps & obstacles through misinformation.

@PVNNarayanan @INCIndia Continuity of Modi Government in 2019 and booting out Congress permanently from the Centre also ensured closing of doors and windows for corruption by Congress & its crutches Communists. And more we see the reason of frustration in d disgruntled lot engaging in immoral protests.


@PVNNarayanan @INCIndia Memories short, no Congressman of self pride and with interests of the party ā€œideals and ideologyā€ close to his heart talking about change of leadership and holding of elections for election of Party President ! All that has got buried in the dust of #FarmersProtest manicured !
I’m ready to name 2020 the Year of Hypocrisy.

The year where organizations, governments, and companies destroyed their institutional trust across the board.

A thread of some of the biggest dumpster fires from the last twelve months. 🧵

Municipal leaders in NYC, who we trust to keep us safe, were far too concerned about their woke credentials than they were about public health. The result was the second-worst hit state in the country (after NJ)


Remember when the Surgeon General told Americans not to wear masks?

Then, a few weeks later reversed himself and taught us how to make them at home?

Wonder why so many people don’t trust government guidance on masks now? Maybe a reason there.
https://t.co/cGkb0L328K


Remember when Dr. Fauci said not to wear masks in March on 60 minutes.

Then later said he knew masks were good but wanted to protect mask supplies for first responders?

Then he didn’t wear a mask at the ballgame?


Media - where do we even begin? Infinite examples to choose from on both sides of the partisan aisle.

For the vast majority of *national* media, their only consistency in 2020 was that they would take whatever position made Trump look good or bad.
I've been watching for reports around the country all day. So far, only Michigan has had anything more than a few rightwing protesters, but that could change closer to the inauguration.

I'm following @freep's live coverage of the Michigan Capitol here.

Where I am seeing small groups-- average of 3-5 people-- it's Boogaloo Boys. In Columbus, Ohio, and Salem, Oregon, for example.

.@jordangreentcb reports a dozen rightwing types skulking around in Raleigh, North Carolina, which is interesting.


.@jason_a_w is live-tweeting five Boogaloo Boys in Salem, Oregon. As he notes, they’re outnumbered 3:1 by the journalists on scene.


In New Jersey, @DLamontJenkins reports ā€œone old guy, and he isn’t anywhere near the Statehouse, and he’s pissed.ā€
A 2012 recording of former Belarusian KGB chief suggests President Alexander Lukashenko sanctioned assassinations of opponents abroad. Specifically mentioned is Belarus-born journalist Pavel Sheremet, who was killed by a car bomb in central Kyiv, Ukraine, in July 2016.


Tape doesn't prove Belarus killed Sheremet but adds new wrinkle to unsolved case & weight to one of 3 "tracks" of investigation: organized & carried out by Russians; ...Ukrainians; ...Belarusians. Details about how KGB wanted Sheremet killed also similar to what really happened.


Ukraine arrested and is currently trying 3 suspects in Kyiv for Sheremet's murder. All have denied involvement and much of Ukrainian civil society has sided with them. Legal experts also say authorities' case is built upon weak evidence. I wrote about it:

I've covered the Sheremet murder from day one. I wrote a lengthy investigation about it for @pressfreedom in 2016-17: https://t.co/fFr4bAJdEy I found many failings on the part of Ukrainian authorities, who made their preference clear from the beginning: that Russia was behind it.

Another investigation into Sheremet's murder by @OCCRP and @Slidstvo_info also found failings in the official investigation as well as possible links to Ukrainian security service involvement.
When Presidents propose a bill or plan, congress still has to draft and pass the bill in full, bc it includes more than just "issue this check."
So ask your congressional rep where your checks are, because it's on congress to get it through.


Biden did sign an executive order last week to push the treasury to expedite delivery of the initial $600 payment that was already approved in December, because a lot of eligible folks still haven't received it, even though the deadline for disbursement was Jan 15th.

Y'all wanna hold Biden to his promises this term, hold your folks in house and senate to theirs, because it's their job to negotiate plans and bills and pass them. Not everything can be done through executive order. Biden's ability to do what he says is reliant on them.

The proposed American Rescue Plan hasn't even been approved by congress yet - they couldn't start work on drafting the bill before he was sworn in, but *they* are the next step to your money.

Yes, that exact congress (senate may be 50/50 but Dems are in control and Harris has the tie-breaking vote), because they couldn't start work on this until Biden officially took office.