Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics. Chief Justice John Roberts joined with his four more liberal colleagues in ruling that the law requiring doctors who perform abortions have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals violates the abortion right the court first announced in the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emaoconnor/supreme-court-upholds-abortion-rights-strikes-louisiana-law
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/us/supreme-court-abortion-louisiana.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/29/supreme-court-abortion-decision-louisiana-law-struck-down.html
Pelosi Requests All-House Briefing from the Director of National Intelligence and Central Intelligence Agency on Press Reports of Russian Bounties on U.S. Troops in Afghanistan
https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/62920-0
NATO officials say they were briefed on Russian bounties on US soldiers in Afghanistan — even though Trump claims he wasn't
https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-bounty-us-soldiers-afghanistan-nato-officials-briefed-trump-denies-2020-6
Wisconsin Republicans oppose expanding voting by mail, but 80% of state Republican legislators used absentee ballots in April
https://www.chicagotribune.com/midwest/ct-nw-wisconsin-voting-by-mail-republicans-20200629-e2oqmwo5cjbk7anvlzcw6nyevm-story.html
Problem is with the way this administration works is we can't know the scope of the issues without fired trash like Bolton coming forward. These guys hide everything. We will still be finding out new things years after this administration is out of power.
Reddit bans r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse to make Black people happy. Antisemitism still allowed. And Democrats wonder why Trump has already won.
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/6/29/21304947/reddit-ban-subreddits-the-donald-chapo-trap-house-new-content-policy-rules
WH Says Trump Retweeted White Power Video That He Did Not Know Was A White Power Video To Stand With Demonized Supporters
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/white-house-mcenany-defends-trump-white-power-retweet
We used to run from people wearing masks, now we run from people not wearing them. Total insanity. The mask will not save you from covid. This mask thing is total nonsense. Have any of you spent even a second researching the efficacy and danger or otherwise of those masks, or even the so called virus? ..Do you know there are doctors who say those masks are dangerous for your health?... .Damn sheep. Many of you folks need to go online and research these things instead of just swallowing the official line on everything like damn sheeple.
The House has passed the first significant expansion of the Affordable Care Act since its birth a decade ago, providing Democrats a platform to castigate Trump for his efforts to overturn the landmark law during a pandemic and an election year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/house-democrats-push-through-first-bill-in-a-decade-expanding-affordable-care-act/2020/06/29/350d3046-ba0f-11ea-8cf5-9c1b8d7f84c6_story.html
He's not wrong: In Joe Biden’s America your job is illegal, you are locked in your home, borders don’t exist, MS-13 lives next door and the police aren’t coming when the mob arrives. This is all of us.
https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1277628850130780160
Daniel Pearl's killer may walk free this week. A British-born man convicted over the gruesome 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl could walk free later this week after a ruling by Pakistan’s supreme court. The court refused on Monday a government request to suspend a lower court’s ruling exonerating Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh of Pearl’s murder before a 90-day detention order expires on Thursday.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/29/man-jailed-for-killing-daniel-pearl-may-walk-free-this-week
Biden, per pooler @KThomasDC: "I certainly wouldn’t invite Putin to the United States. I would take the issue to the (UN) security council, reveal what Russia had done and I’d work like hell with our allies to impose new sanctions on Russia."
https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/1277713211748487170
Biden told this group of Wall St. execs that he plans to blow out large parts of Trump's tax cut. “I’m going to get rid of the bulk of Trump’s $2 trillion tax cut and a lot of you may not like that but I’m going to close loopholes like capital gains and stepped up basis."
https://twitter.com/schwartzbCNBC/status/1277711899799498752
The spike in Texas cases hit Artemio Muñiz, chair of the Federation of Hispanic Republicans, who got coronavirus along with his brother and father. Muñiz said the surge is a problem for Trump and Republicans and that Democrats can “absolutely” win Texas.
https://newsweek.com/coronavirus-surges-florida-arizona-texas-imperil-trump-campaign-reboot-1514167
WarnerMedia is selling the iconic CNN Center in Atlanta. "During the pandemic, we have learned a lot about working remotely and we will be looking at space solutions that are more agile for the appropriate teams," execs told employees. Countless people permanently unemployed as rich upper-income employees work from home.
He's right: 'Incredible stupidity': Trump blasts Princeton's decision to strip Woodrow Wilson's name from school
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/29/trump-blasts-princeton-woodrow-wilson-name-344209
"A new strain of flu that has the potential to become pandemic has been identified in China by scientists. It emerged recently and is carried by pigs, but can infect humans, they say."
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53218704
"In Texas, Greg Abbott followed Trump's philosophy of 'see no evil, hear no evil' and do as little testing as possible so it looks like you don't have a problem, and that has come back to hurt Texans in a bad way," @JoaquinCastrotx told me.
ttps://newsweek.com/coronavirus-surges-florida-arizona-texas-imperil-trump-campaign-reboot-1514167
Big indication things with China’s takeover of Hong Kong are getting worse: Today, we are ending exports of U.S. defense and dual-use tech to Hong Kong. We can’t risk these items falling into the hands of the People’s Liberation Army, whose purpose is to uphold the dictatorship of the CCP by any means necessary.
https://www.state.gov/u-s-government-ending-controlled-defense-exports-to-hong-kong/
Twitch has suspended Donald Trump's account
https://www.engadget.com/twitch-suspends-donald-trump-account-174145621.html
Trump’s campaign is suing Pennsylvania election officials over the state’s vote-by-mail rules, just weeks after Democrats overwhelmingly cast ballots that way in a primary.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-29/campaign-update
Cirque du Soleil cuts 3,500 jobs to avoid bankruptcy | The company will now try to restructure while shedding about 95% of its staff.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53221516
Arizona governor orders bars, nightclubs, gyms, movie theaters and water parks to close for at least 30 days over virus.
https://twitter.com/NickRiccardi/status/1277731432098488320
I was White House Staff Sec’y. Every document that goes to POTUS is literally stamped “The President Has Seen” and a record is kept. So, let the briefing docs testify.
https://twitter.com/RepSeanMaloney/status/1277563910787399682
NBA and MLB players are opting out all over the place, cancel the seasons already
If Yemen was 100 people:
- 80 need aid to survive.
- 66 have almost nothing to eat.
- 64 have no access to health care.
- 58 are without clean water.
- 11 are severely malnourished.
But Yemen is not 100 people.
It’s 30.5 million people.
https://twitter.com/Carrasquillo/status/1277731829966090246
GOOD: Approximately 13,400 employees of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services woke to find out they will be furloughed beginning in August, a move that will effectively bring the U.S. immigration system grinding to a halt.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep4pkw/the-trump-administration-just-furloughed-13400-immigration-workers
- “Arizona has lost control of the epidemic” eclipsing NYC boroughs even on their worst days.
- Texas shuttered bars again after a 79% spike in weekly average infections.
- Florida hit a record 9,585 daily cases topping Italy's peak of 6,153, w/ 3x the population.
https://newsweek.com/coronavirus-surges-florida-arizona-texas-imperil-trump-campaign-reboot-1514167
https://twitter.com/Carrasquillo/status/1277738572150431746
Trump claims he wasn't briefed on Russia bounties as US intel links them to killing of three Marines | Reports say Trump was briefed — as were congressional leaders and American allies overseas
https://www.salon.com/2020/06/29/trump-claims-he-wasnt-briefed-on-russia-bounties-as-us-intel-links-them-to-killing-of-three-marines/
—@TuckerCarlson is still airing weeks-old footage on his show. Note this is from May 28, more than a month ago.
https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1277754203008622595
Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie (@SDinwiddie_25) tells @TheAthleticNBA he has tested positive for coronavirus and has symptoms, creating doubt over his status for NBA restart.
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1277724324040974336
I agree with this, this is the proper venue for this: The NBA is planning to paint Black Lives Matter on the court inside both sidelines in all three arenas it will use at Disney in Orlando when it resumes the 2019-20 season late next month.
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1277743489657253890
Trump's phone calls with foreign leaders are so unhinged that US officials think the president is 'delusional' and a national security threat
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-delusional-calls-with-foreign-leaders-national-security-threat-cnn-2020-6
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trumps-jaw-dropping-calls-with-foreign-leaders-threaten-national-security-cnn-report-claims-2020-06-29
Biden to industry donors "I'm going to get rid of most of Trump's tax cuts and a lot of you may not like that"
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/29/biden-tells-donors-he-will-end-most-of-trumps-tax-cuts.html
[DeAndre Jordan] Found out last night and confirmed again today that I’ve tested positive for Covid while being back in market. As a result of this, I will not be in Orlando for the resumption of the season.
https://twitter.com/DeAndre/status/1277777538312478720
Ian Desmond (MLB, Colorado Rockies, not well known) is opting out of playing in MLB this season. In addition to Covid-19 he cites the MLB’s rampant racism, sexism, homophobia, cheating scandals, and labor wars.
https://www.instagram.com/i_dez20/?hl=en
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey announces there will be limits on gatherings of 50 or more people beginning at 8 p.m. tonight for the next month. The Arizona #Dbacks open the 2020 season in 25 days. Arizona has had more than 3,000 new COVID-19 cases in five of the past seven days.
https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/1277745564310855682
Trump Received Written Briefing in February - Earlier Than Thought - On Russian Bounties That Resulted In The Killings Of Three US Marines In A Truck Bombing In 2019, Before Trump's G7 Invite To Putin
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/us/politics/trump-russia-plot-afghanistan.html
https://apnews.com/425e43fa0ffdd6e126c5171653ec47d1
https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-knew-russia-bounties-2019-before-trumps-g7-invite-putin-1514259
Republicans have been skipping House Intelligence meetings for months
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/29/republicans-house-intelligence-345212
Trump attacks Republicans who don't support him as 'stupid people' as president plummets in polls
https://www.independent.co.uk/us-election-2020/trump-polls-latest-approval-rating-republicans-2020-election-second-term-a9591886.html
Suggest that a small percentage of the people who support an avowed racist who pursues openly racist policies might be racists themselves and you're labelled a member of an out of touch coastal elite that despises ordinary Americans. Call members of your own party stupid and you're a strong leader.
Goldman Sachs says a national mask mandate could slash infections and save economy from a 5% hit
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/30/goldman-sachs-says-a-national-mask-mandate-could-slash-infections-and-save-economy-from-a-5percent-hit.html
I need to just point this out. To say that they worship satan is not exactly correct. They worship the idea of the “adversary”. Not any sort of metaphorical lord of the underworld. The worship the idea of essentially an adversary standing in your way, which must be overcome through logical thought.
Amy McGrath has narrowly won the Democratic nomination in Kentucky to take on Senator Mitch McConnell, fending off a challenge from a progressive rival, Charles Booker. I really don't see any Democrat beating McConnell, but McGrath, a centre-right Democrat has a greater chance of making it a close race then the deranged antisemitic nutjob who was also an African-Americans which cancelled him out in a mostly white conservative alt-right right-wing state like Kentucy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/us/politics/kentucky-senate-mcgrath-booker.html
Mary Trump’s Tell-All Book Temporarily Blocked in Court
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mary-trumps-tell-all-book-temporarily-blocked-in-court/
A Massive Star Has Seemingly Vanished from Space With No Explanation: Astronomers are trying to figure out whether the star collapsed into a black hole without going supernova, or if it disappeared in a cloud of dust.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dyzyez/a-massive-star-has-seemingly-vanished-from-space-with-no-explanation
Senate strips provision from intelligence bill requiring campaigns to report foreign election help
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/politics/senate-removes-ban-foreign-election-help/index.html
Trump cancels Alabama rally over coronavirus fears
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-alabama-rally-cancel-coronavirus-jeff-sessions-a9594366.html
Joe Biden invokes his late son's military service as he suggests Trump 'unfit to be president' over Russia claims
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/biden-son-beau-trump-russia-bounty-2020-election-a9594381.html
Good time for a reminder of what the then-Republican-controlled House tried to do after Trump was elected: With No Warning, House Republicans Vote to Gut Independent Ethics Office | House Republicans, overriding their top leaders, voted on Monday to significantly curtail the power of an independent ethics office set up in 2008 in the aftermath of corruption scandals that sent three members of Congress to jail. The move to effectively kill the Office of Congressional Ethics was not made public until late Monday, when Representative Robert W. Goodlatte, Republican of Virginia and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, announced that the House Republican Conference had approved the change. There was no advance notice or debate on the measure.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/us/politics/with-no-warning-house-republicans-vote-to-hobble-independent-ethics-office.html
In the United States: Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".[9]-Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization | Peer review on Foundations of Geopolitics©1997. Supposedly the book that Putin is using as a loose guide for USSR reunification
https://web.archive.org/web/20160607175004/https://www2.gwu.edu/%7Eieresgwu/assets/docs/demokratizatsiya%20archive/GWASHU_DEMO_12_1/John%20Dunlop%20Aleksandr%20Dugin's%20Foundations%20of%20Geopolitics.pdf
And people think the Cold War just ended? no. The Russians are winning the long game hard right now. All that celebrating over Reagan bankrupting the USSR with the race to build as many missiles as possible. The US thought that was the end of it. The Cold War never ended for Russia. It never ended for Putin. He's been plotting revenge since the fall of the USSR, and has risen to power with one driving thought: destroy the USA.
Also, a reminder for everyone: We had a spy in Russia that could literally take pictures of documents on Putin's desk, and the CIA had to pull him out because they were so worried Trump would inadvertently (or maybe not inadvertently..) give him up after he just blurted out intelligence Israel gave to us about Syria when he had Kislyak and Lavrov, Russian ambassador to the United States and Russia's foreign minister, in the Oval Office the day after he had Comey fired. That spy was how we knew for a fact Russia was interfering in our election.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-kremlin-spy-trump-1458461
Germany still has massive influence over Europe, Taliban currently controls more of Afghanistan than any time since 2002 and are really the de facto leaders of Afghanistan, Vietnam is 'communist'...
Major League Baseball has informed Minor League Baseball that it will not be having its affiliated Minor League teams with players for the 2020 season. As a result, there will not be a Minor League Baseball season in 2020.
https://twitter.com/MiLB/status/1278070823203504130
Update: The Indians will continue to pay their minor leaguers $400 per week through the end of July. That's now 27 of 30 teams paying their minor leaguers past the end of June.
https://twitter.com/kyleaglaser/status/1278066874140356609?s=21
Beyond Meat founder: Our plant-based meat is on its way to being cheaper than animal protein
https://finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/beyond-meat-founder-plantbased-meat-is-on-its-way-to-being-cheaper-than-animal-protein-140141254.html
Good, we should leave Syria, and Afghanistan: Russian forces are encroaching on U.S. troop-controlled territory in eastern Syria — part of what officials say is a deliberate campaign to squeeze the U.S. military out of the region, according to two current U.S. officials and one former U.S. official. Remember Trump announced pre-covid19 that the US was withdrawing from Syria.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/30/russians-us-troops-syria-uproar-trump-345584
I am not protein deficient.
https://i.redd.it/jj6nkmcvt2851.jpg
Here's a 2007 CDC pandemic plan warning that erratic social distancing rules would cause economic and social damage without containing the disease
https://cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/pdf/community_mitigation-sm.pdf
Democrats Fear Pandemic's Effect on Biden's Coalition of Black, Latino Voters. Falling voter registration in key states.
https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-fear-pandemics-effect-bidens-coalition-black-latino-voters-1514509
Tencent (China!) is launching a competing service with Twitch and the now-defunct Mixer called Trovo. Naturally, everyone thinks it's a great idea to endorse Tencent because everyone loves Chinese money even if it means selling out. How hopeless.
Far too little far too late: Facebook is “designating a violent U.S.-based anti-government network (the Boogaloo movement) as a dangerous organization and banning it from our apps.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-remove-anti-government-boogaloo-groups-n1232579
The Trump campaign has spent more than $325,000 on ads featuring Brad Parscale's Facebook and Instagram pages, most of it in last month. Parscale profiteering.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/us/politics/brad-parscale-trump.html
If a president's advisers only brought him intelligence that reflected a consensus of the intelligence agencies, or that had been fully "verified," to borrow from a word administration officials are using today, they would bring him very little intelligence.
This rejection from Boris Johnson re Trump’s push for Russia’s G8 reentry reads entirely different given he surely was briefed on the intel. “Until it ceases aggressive & destabilizing activity that threatens the safety of U.K. citizens and the collective security of our allies,"
https://twitter.com/biannagolodryga/status/1278074078788804613
Ideological diversity is well and good, but in my experience, hyper-engaged political junkies understand "the other side" way better than they understand the low-interest voters who hate talking politics but actually swing elections.
Alcohol has killed more people than any virus ever could: “On Tuesday, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed into legislation HF 2540, which makes cocktails-to-go permanently legal for both takeout and delivery.” Same legislature rejected mail-in ballots for all registered voters for Nov 2020 election.
https://fortune.com/2020/06/30/to-go-cocktails-takeout-drinks-alcohol-coronvirus/
The Treasury Department had tremendous success developing an understanding of the “hawala” system of money transfers following 9/11. If they've got the goods here this intelligence would appear to be much more solid than we've been led to believe: Analysts have used other evidence to conclude that the transfers were likely part of an effort to offer payments to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan.
https://nytimes.com/2020/06/30/us/politics/russian-bounties-afghanistan-intelligence.html
The good news: no more Steve King!!! The bad news: our new opponent's most coveted endorsement compares homosexuality to pedophilia and supports conversion therapy. Chip in to our campaign that Stands Tall for All in #IA04 and stand up to this hate: http://secure.actblue.com/donate/jdslaunch
https://twitter.com/PreetBharara/status/1278072769889140736?s=20
Was just talking to an epidemiologist about return to schools. And like most every aspect of this pandemic, those severely impacted/left behind will be lower income and communities of color.
https://twitter.com/lbarronlopez/status/1278071314624974851?s=20
Everyone wore masks on their way to the podium & VP Pence continued to encourage Americans to wear face coverings when social distancing isn't possible. This is a change from Friday's briefing. Pence made the new plea more emphatically Sunday in Dallas and is now repeating it.
Of Cubans who migrated to Miami before 1980, 72% say they’re Republican and only 35% of those younger than 40 say they are. Only 23% of those younger Cuban-Americans identify as Democrats, and 40% are independents.
https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-30/trump-woos-cuba-hardliners-despite-their-waning-clout-in-florida
Demand for virus tests is again outpacing supply. If it persists and shortages are not resolved, turnaround times for test results will rise, tests will be rationed, and the number of infections that are never counted in official stats will grow
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/06/us-coronavirus-testing-could-fail-again/613675/
The White House is working to set up a Gang of 8 briefing for TOMORROW on the Russia/Afghanistan bounty situation, Hill sources tell me. They have not been briefed yet. Gang of 8: Pelosi, McCarthy, Schumer, McConnell, Schiff, Rubio, Nunes and Warner.
https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1278068364632621057
All major global military powers are going to be jocking for increased global influence and power all the time. Its not just the US and Russia either, China in particular is out in a big way right now as well as are others.
How the fuck weren't intelligence officials sounding the alarm when they were watching Russian intelligence and military entities aid Taliban and other Islamic militants in conducting attacks against US and coalition forces??? And when three US soldiers were killed as a direct result of the bounty agreement?
Another virus with pandemic potential linked to livestock. I wonder how long will it take for people to start seeing the pattern.
https://khn.org/morning-breakout/china-researchers-discover-new-swine-flu-with-pandemic-potential-india-approves-vaccine-for-human-trials/
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/asia/china-swine-flu-pandemic-intl-hnk-scli-scn/index.html
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/swine-flu-strain-human-pandemic-potential-increasingly-found-pigs-china
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/world/asia/h1n1-swine-flu-virus-china-pig.html
The Other Side of the Mountain Story: A Native Perspective on Mt. Rushmore
https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/the-other-side-of-the-mountain-story-a-native-perspective-on-mt-rushmore/
Democrats Just Flipped A Kentucky State Senate Seat Republicans Held For 25 Years
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kentucky-democrats-flip-state-senate-suburbs_n_5efb5bf0c5b612083c5366a5?ncid=APPLENEWS00001
A handful of major donors footed the bill for nearly $500,000 worth of Vice President Mike Pence’s legal fees related to the special counsel’s investigation, according to a financial filing released Tuesday. | The majority of the trust’s cash came from three donors who each gave $100,000 — Michael K. Hayde and Laura Khouri, real estate executives from Southern California who have donated nearly $3 million to national Republican candidates and groups since the beginning of the 2016 election, and Herbert Simon, a mall developer from Indiana and the owner of a professional basketball team who has donated more than $560,000 in that time, primarily to Democrats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/us/politics/pence-mueller.html
Colorado is a top Senate target for Democrats. But after some stumbles, former Gov. John Hickenlooper is facing a tougher-than-expected primary contest against Andrew Romanoff.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/30/us/elections/results-colorado-primary-elections.html
Meanwhile, in New York City, elections officials said they won’t begin counting all the absentee ballots from last week’s primaries until next week.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/23/us/elections/results-new-york-primary-elections.html
In Utah's Republican gubernatorial primary, former Governor and presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is seeking the gubernatorial nomination in a tight contest with Lieutenant Governor Spencer Cox in a race that polls show as a virtual dead heat.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/30/us/elections/results-utah-primary-elections.html
In Oklahoma, there is a mildly competitive Republican primary in Oklahoma's 5th Congressional District to take on incumbent Democratic Representative Kendra Horn, with a runoff in August if no candidate secures a majority of the vote tonight, but the major vote is State Question 802, which is a proposition on the ballot asking whether the state should accept the Medicaid expansion under Obamacare.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/30/us/elections/results-oklahoma-primary-elections.html
Russians grant Putin right to extend his rule until 2036 in landslide vote, initial results show
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-putin-vote-idUSKBN24254A
Trump was reportedly briefed on possible Russian bounties on US troops on February 27 — the same day he had a 45-minute meeting with producers behind a dramatized play about ex-FBI members Peter Strzok and Lisa Page
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-briefing-possible-russian-bounties-cpac-play-fbi-lovebirds-2020-6
100.4 degree Arctic temperature record confirmed as study suggests Earth is warmest in at least 12,000 years
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arctic-temperature-record-100-4-degrees-earth-warmest-12000-years/
Oklahoma voters approve Medicaid expansion at the ballot
https://oklahoman.com/article/5665790/oklahoma-voters-approve-medicaid-expansion-at-the-ballot
Michael Glassner -- the Trump campaign's chief operating officer, who previously handled Trump's rallies -- has been reassigned to deal with legal affairs during the homestretch of the campaign. Aides began making plans to put Glassner in this new role following the rally on June 20 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Trump spoke to an unfilled arena -- a scene about which he has continued to fume. Though there were questions about campaign manager Brad Parscale's future, Glassner was seen as a potential target as well, given the prominent role he played in orchestrating these events.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/30/politics/michael-glassner-trump-campaign-tulsa-rally/index.html
'Where are you Roger Ailes?' Trump Aksks Where Roger Ailes Is. He Died Three Years Ago.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wonders-where-is-roger-ailes-who-has-been-dead-three-years
Hickenlooper to take on Gardner in Colorado Senate race
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/30/us/elections/results-colorado-primary-elections.html
46 million girls went missing in India, says UNFPA report. The highest figure in the world
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/46-million-girls-went-missing-in-india/article31957348.ece
Alabama Republicans have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a federal judge’s order that the state cannot prohibit counties from offering curbside voting during the July 14 runoff.
https://www.al.com/news/2020/06/alabama-asks-us-supreme-court-to-block-curbside-voting-ruling.html
Bird found feeding chick cigarette butt in 'devastating' image: 'Cigarette butts were one of the most typical item of all types of rubbish gathered from beaches around the world, according to a report by Sea Conservancy in 2015.'
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/bird-cigarette-butt-chick-picture-florida-beach-photograph-rubbish-a8980676.html
Italy Seizes World Record 14-Tonne Of ISIS-Made Amphetamines From Syria Worth A Billion Dollars. Democrats Are The People Who Support Drug Legalization. Drug Money Funds Crime And Terrorism.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/italy-seizes-world-record-14-tonne-of-isis-made-amphetamines-from-syria-2255225
New strain of swine flu virus is rapidly spreading to people eating pigs.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-nyt-new-swine-flu-spread-china-20200630-ucf67avdhffnzkqxfxndtsczou-story.html
GO VEGAN. STOP EATING ANIMALS. STOP SMOKING EVERYTHING. STOP DRINKING. STOP DRUGGING. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN HEALTH.
50 killed in Ethiopia protests over singer's death
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-protests/50-killed-in-ethiopia-protests-over-singers-death-idUSKBN2411DO
Mississippi Governor Signs Bill Abandoning State Flag With Confederate Emblem
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mississippi-governor-confederate-flag_n_5efbbffec5b6acab28485a17
Judge Throws Out Trump Rule That Blocked Central American Asylum Seekers at Southern Border
https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-throws-out-trump-immigration-rule-that-blocked-central-american-asylum-seekers-at-southern-border
The Trump administration just lent a troubled trucking company $700 million. The company was worth only $70 million
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/business/yrc-federal-loan/index.html
Russian Bounties Strain Veterans’ Support for Trump. It should've been broken when he mocked a POW, or when he disparaged a Gold-star family, or when he abdicated his responsibility to "Obama and the generals" when the Yemen raid he green-lit was disasterous, or when he couldn't remember Sgt. Johnson's name to his widow that was sitting right in front of him, or when...
https://www.courthousenews.com/russian-bounties-strain-veterans-support-for-trump/
Trump dismisses Russian bounty allegations as a 'hoax'
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/505379-trump-dismisses-russian-bounty-allegations-as-a-hoax
Do not believe: US Intelligence Services, US Military, Congressional Republicans and Democrats, Staff from the White House. Do believe: This orange sack of shit, known for lying with each breath he’s ever taken and for slobbering Putin’s knob at every opportunity. Don’t forget the Taliban. They’re saying it’s a hoax too. So for those counting that makes Trump, Putin, and the Taliban vs. the field. Who you got? And the virus is a hoax. 100,000 Americans didn’t die from it. But it’s also China’s fault for spreading the virus. Also the Democrats and Bill Gates created the virus in a lab and all the governments of the world destroyed their economies just to make Trump look bad.
Today, the Crazy Horse Memorial has been under construction since 1948. It is located on private land some 17 miles from Mount Rushmore in Custer County, South Dakota. The enormous monument is being carved from Thunderhead Mountain in the Black Hills, in an area with sacred significance for some Oglala Lakota. And if it is ever completed, it will tower above the presidents at Mount Rushmore. Meanwhile, though, not all Lakota people are on board with the project. Some are angered by what they see as profiteering from the name of the legendary ancestor. Others believe the monument represents a desecration of land and culture – and something Crazy Horse himself would not have accepted. “[The makers of the memorial] don’t respect our culture, because we didn’t give permission for someone to carve the sacred Black Hills where our burial grounds are,” Elaine Quiver, a descendant of Crazy Horse’s family, told Voice of America in 2003. “They were there for us to enjoy, and they were there for us to pray. But it wasn’t meant to be carved into images, which is very wrong for all of us…” But despite the controversy surrounding the memorial, it should provide benefit to local communities in the form of associated cultural and educational facilities. These include the University and Medical Training Center for the North American Indian – a satellite campus of the University of South Dakota – and the Indian Museum of North America. The memorial foundation has also donated $1.2 million in scholarships, mostly to Native American students.
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https://historicalpost.com/anthropology-and-history/huge-crazy-horse-monument-years-to-complete/20/
Sigh....J.R. Smith signed with the Lakers....
Taliban commanders have confirmed that Russia has offered financial and material support to its members in exchange for attacking US forces in Afghanistan. Not even the Taliban are denying it.
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-did-pay-extremists-attack-american-soldiers-taliban-sources-say-2020-7
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html
Hundreds of elephants dead in mysterious mass die-off - Botswana’s government is yet to test the remains of the dead animals in what has been described as a ‘conservation disaster’.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/01/more-than-350-elephants-dead-in-mysterious-mass-die-off-botswana-aoe
McEnany says Trump's message to military families worried about reports about Russia offering bounties for US troops is that it's "unverified." Imagine the reaction from Republicans if Obama administration had been this callous during Benghazi.
By a 1 percent margin, Oklahoma voters expand Medicaid to low-income residents
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/1-percent-margin-oklahoma-voters-expand-medicaid-low-income-residents-n1232645
Trump claims he's 'all for masks' after repeately refusing to publicly wear one himself for months
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-claims-hes-all-for-masks-after-refusing-to-wear-one-himself-2020-7
Trump says coronavirus-19 will "just disappear" at some point
https://www.axios.com/trump-coronavirus-disappear-cac3b50f-14f5-435a-932b-32e61f448554.html
DeSantis signed into law a measure that permanently reverses a ban on sunscreen imposed by Key West to help protect reefs and the fragile ecosystem
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/florida-governor-chooses-side-in-sunscreen-debate-slather-away/2255996/
Trump's resistance to intel warnings about Russia led his national security team to verbally brief him less often on Russia-related threats to the US
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/politics/trump-intel-briefings-russia/index.html
The number of active duty military personnel who have tested positive for coronavirus has more than doubled since June 10, per DOD.
https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1278436497058914311?s=20
Pennsylvania's high court turns down Republican lawmakers' effort to end governor's shutdown order.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1278435931373088769?s=20
My shouted question at the end of this putrid display: “With 130 thousand dead how can you call it a succcess? ” @PressSec walked off.
https://twitter.com/BrianKarem/status/1278435871109394432?s=20
While Trump’s rally ended up having far fewer than 19,000 attendees, the documents make it clear that the Trump campaign went ahead with the event even as health officials were projecting that it could literally lead to deaths.
https://twitter.com/weareoversight/status/1278435363653136385?s=20
https://www.americanoversight.org/document/tulsa-oklahoma-covid-19-transmission-and-death-estimates-related-to-trump-campaign-rally
Another problem w this colossally spectacular fail in leadership is that Dorian actually did make landfall in the US. In North Carolina. We don't get to hear about how Dorian was eastern NC's 3rd hurricane in 4 yrs; NC is still deep in recovery mode. This takes up all the oxygen
https://twitter.com/JasonLeopold/status/1278400564733198336?s=20
https://www.noaa.gov/foia/reading-room/hurricane-dorian-related-records/eighth
Ex-felons’ voting rights on hold in Florida after federal court agrees to hear DeSantis’ Amendment 4 appeal
https://orlandosentinel.com/politics/2020-election/os-ne-amendment-4-stay-20200701-r5gjfmv27jfe5fm5xuvjtgfeua-story.html
Why are the Republicans lawmakers silent on all the evil/corruption/destruction/etc? They both agree with it and don't care.
U.S. House passes legislation that would penalize banks doing business with Chinese officials involved in the national security law the country recently imposed on Hong Kong
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1278440478061592577
Reminder: Mount Rushmore was built on land that belonged to the Lakota tribe and sculpted by a man who had strong bonds with the Ku Klux Klan. It features the faces of 2 U.S. presidents who were slaveholders.
The U.S. House passed, by unanimous consent, the extension of the Paycheck Protection Program to Aug. 8.
It now heads to Trump's desk for his signature.
The NFL is shortening the 2020 preseason from four games down to two games, per @ProFootballTalk. Weeks 1 and 4 will be eliminated.
https://twitter.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1278423125848399874?s=20
GRASSLEY: "When this president starts talking about the future, instead of the past, start talking about the 329 million Americans and not just about himself, I think that you're going to see this very dramatically turn around."
https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1278439164569161729?s=20
Dr. Fauci says drinking inside bars is one of the most dangerous things you can do right now. Silent on the fact that alcohol has destroyed more people than covid19 could ever dream of and is a major root cause of violence and death and rape and wrecked health etc across the entire fucking globe. Which is why intelligent people dismiss public health officials as liars.
HUD defies Supreme Court decision in Bostock case with rule allowing anti-trans discrimination in homeless shelters
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2020/07/01/hud-appears-to-defy-bostock-ruling-with-anti-trans-rule-for-homeless-shelters/
YEP: RJC Calls on Biden to Condemn Antisemitic BLM Chants
https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/1278495686581989376?s=20
At what point will the White House stop misleadingly referring to these outbreaks as “embers”? Hospitals are surpassing ICU capacity in Houston. The Sunbelt is burning. This is like a fire department telling you your house is not on fire when you call for help — just “embers.” (press secretary spewing lies)
Mark Zuckerberg recently told Facebook employees he expects boycotting advertisers to “be back on the platform soon enough," and that he won't change policies “because of a threat to a small percent of our revenue, or to any percent of our revenue.”
Tonight a New York appellate court vacated the restraining order against Simon & Schuster, publisher of the forthcoming book written by the president's niece.
https://twitter.com/rcfp/status/1278480161034436610?s=20
"The Trump campaign isn’t trying to grow his support among Black and Latino voters—even they understand that is a fool’s errand. ... [T]hey want to diminish overall Black and Latino turnout to make it easier to win the election with only white voters."
https://crooked.com/articles/donald-trump-secret-plan-to-win/
Afghan Contractor Handed Out Russian Cash to Kill Americans | A small-time businessman became a key middleman for bounties on coalition troops in Afghanistan, U.S. intelligence reports say. Friends saw him grow rich, but didn’t know how. An Afghan contractor is named in American intel reports and confirmed by Afghan officials as a key middleman who for years handed out money from a Russian military intel unit to reward Taliban-linked fighters for targeting American troops in Afghanistan.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/world/asia/afghan-russia-bounty-middleman.html
“Part of the revolutionary work of Hamilton is that it provides a sense of joyful, celebratory ownership of a country in which citizenship has been, officially and unofficially, so often conflated with whiteness.”
https://theundefeated.com/features/five-years-ago-hamilton-turned-a-revolution-into-a-revelation-what-now/
"Some doctors believe the culprit is a neurological condition that may affect up to 15% of all Covid-19 patients" | Meet the "long-haulers," the young and healthy Covid-19 patients who never got better. I interviewed 24 of them. A Mount Sinai doctor says many may have developed post-viral dysautonomia, a neurological condition.
https://wsj.com/articles/three-months-in-these-patients-are-still-ravaged-by-covids-fallout-11593612004
The Supreme Court will keep secret grand jury testimony collected by former special counsel Robert Mueller out of House Democrats' hands until after the November presidential election to protect Republicans. If voters learn from the mouth of Republicans that Trump and Republicans conspired with Russia to rig the elections, voters might now want tovote for Trump and Republicans, and the Republican-controlled Supreme Court can't have that.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mueller-investigation-russia-probe-trump-supreme-court-testimony-congress-a9597911.html
Trump Campaign T-Shirts Display Nazi-Inspired Symbol
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-campaign-election-t-shirt-nazi-1514950
Every damn time. It really is unbelievable. You'd think that at least once they could do something without it being some subtle (or not so subtle) nod to white supremacy. Obviously, this is no coincidence.
Herman Cain Hospitalized With COVID-19 Days After Attending Trump’s Tulsa Rally
https://www.thedailybeast.com/herman-cain-hospitalized-with-covid-19-days-after-attending-trumps-tulsa-rally
Ghislaine Maxwell, Associate of Jeffrey Epstein, Is Arrested | Ms. Maxwell was accused of helping Mr. Epstein to recruit, groom and then sexually abuse girls, one as young as 14.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/nyregion/ghislaine-maxwell-arrest-jeffrey-epstein.html
Twenty-five positive tests out of 351 players tested since June 23. Out of 884 team staff tested from June 23-29, 10 have tested positive.
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1278728595050049536
YEP: Speaker Pelosi: The president himself is a hoax
https://www.msnbc.com/stephanie-ruhle/watch/speaker-pelosi-the-president-himself-is-a-hoax-86810181720
Republican-controlled Veterans' Administgration refuses to suspend scam colleges that do not provide legitimate degrees from accessing GI Bill benefits
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/07/02/va-backs-down-plan-suspend-university-phoenix-other-colleges-accessing-gi-bill-benefits/
In Whiplash-Inducing Reversal, Abbott Requires Masks In COVID-Ravaged Texas
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-whiplash-inducing-reversal-abbott-requires-masks-in-covid-ravaged-texas
Lest we forget, Abbott had previously *overruled* mayors who wanted to require masks locally, and explicitly forbidden cities to do so.
https://cnn.com/2020/06/18/health/texas-coronavirus-face-masks-abbott-mayors/index.html
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has confirmed an AP report that some service members mobilized to D.C. in response to the unrest over the killing of George Floyd were issued bayonets to kill Americans. Defense documents show some were not trained in riot response.
https://apnews.com/62e1aa26fe5043a63441dcacea70703e
Manhattan prosecutors are attempting to revive their criminal case against Paul Manafort, arguing in a filing made that they have legal standing to bring the indictment even though a state court judge dismissed it six months ago on double jeopardy grounds.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/paul-manafort-new-york-trump-pardon/2020/07/02/97f2197c-bca0-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html
America Spends Billions To Get The Best Intel In The World But Can’t Make Trump Read It | Trump had only 41 “daily” intelligence briefings on his schedule during the first half of 2020 — an average of just one and a half per week
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-intel-briefings_n_5efe4bd8c5b6acab284d73bf
The NBA is closing in on signing off on a second “bubble” in Chicago for the eight teams that were not invited to play in Orlando, enabling mini-training camps and subsequent games against other clubs with a target date of September, sources tell ESPN’s Jackie MacMullan.
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1278790366624452608
Supreme Court, on 5-4 Vote, Blocks Federal District Courts Rules Easing Voting in Alabama Primary in Light of COVID-19
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112775
If the court can't fucking hold in person oral arguments (the shitstain supreme court is currently working remotely) then none of the supreme court decisions are valid. All their recent decisions were made AT HOME. IF THE SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO GO TO THE ACTUAL SUPREME COURT AND WORK, THEN NONE OF THEIR RULINGS ARE VALID. SOMEBODY PLEASE PUT A BULLET IN THEIR BRAINS ALREADY. THE. JUSTICES. REFUSE. TO. WORK. IN. PERSON. BECAUSE. OF. COVID19. YET. THEY. JUST. RULED. THAT. REPUBLICANS. ARE. ALLOWED. TO. BAN. MAIL-IN. BALLOTS. I got so mad when I saw so many idiots praising Roberts on the DACA and LA abortion. He's continually been an enemy to voting rights, this plus the Wisconsin decision.
This post puts the ruling in a broader context. It's in line with 5-4 SCOTUS decision in RNC v. DNC about the Wisconsin primary. Supreme Court majority is not siding with voters, even during (especially during) a pandemic. This is a big deal. More here:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3604668
Mike Pence's trip to Arizona this week had to be postponed by a day after several Secret Service agents who helped organize the visit either tested positive for coronavirus or were showing symptoms of being infected.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-agents-preparing-for-pence-arizona-trip-contracted-coronavirus/2020/07/02/8029280c-bc97-11ea-bdaf-a129f921026f_story.html
Florida's Miami-Dade County imposes nightly curfew to try and slow the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the region. The announcement comes the same day that health officials reported more than 10,000 new cases statewide.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-s-miami-dade-county-use-nightly-curfew-fight-growing-n1232856?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_np
Trump's campaign ready to cancel his convention rally to avoid a 'Tulsa-like humiliation'
https://theweek.com/speedreads/923605/trumps-campaign-reportedly-ready-cancel-convention-rally-avoid-tulsalike-humiliation
Dallas Choir Members Tested Positive for COVID-19 Ahead of Performance for Mike Pence
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/7/2/headlines/dallas_choir_members_tested_positive_for_covid_19_ahead_of_performance_for_mike_pence
Leftists aren’t giving Joe Biden credit for a radical tax plan that goes after the indolent rich — Biden’s unapologetic liberalism and progressivism would nearly double the average tax rate paid by nonworking millionaires and aid the most vulnerable
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/liberals-arent-giving-joe-biden-credit-for-a-radical-tax-plan-that-goes-after-the-indolent-rich-2020-07-02
Puerto Rico - whose citizens are American citizens - declares state of emergency as drought leaves 140,000 without running water
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/infrastructure/505082-puerto-rico-declares-state-of-emergency-cuts
Pence: Florida can thank Trump for being prepared to handle COVID cases
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article243970892.html
Every year during December 31st and the 4th of July several dogs are lost trying to escape from firework noise, only some of them are lucky to be found by shelters. Please choose soundless fireworks when possible to prevent this.
https://abcnews4.com/news/local/animal-shelters-taking-in-pets-spooked-by-fireworks-thunder
What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July? By Frederick Douglass
https://npr.org/2020/07/03/884832594/video-frederick-douglass-descendants-read-his-fourth-of-july-speech
Stacey Abrams on long lines to vote: "It’s a Poll Tax when someone has to risk an entire day’s wage"
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/stacey-abrams-on-long-lines-to-vote-it-s-a-poll-tax-when-someone-has-to-risk-an-entire-day-s-wage-86941253741
After months of inquiry, Trump campaign refuses to return illegal foreign donation | Following two published reports and months of follow-up conversations via phone and email, the Trump campaign has consistently refused to answer the question of what happened to an unlawful $2,800 donation which ended up on its balance sheets in 2019. The most recent Federal Election Commission (FEC) records indicate that the Trump campaign has still not disgorged Turkish national Rabia Kazan's 2019 donation.
https://www.salon.com/2020/07/03/after-months-of-inquiry-trump-campaign-still-appears-to-have-not-returned-illegal-foreign-donation/
https://www.salon.com/2020/05/04/trump-campaign-has-not-returned-illegal-donation-from-foreign-national-fec-records-show/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rogersollenberger/she-shunned-islam-and-was-embraced-by-trump-world-now-shes
http://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?cycle=2020&data_type=processed&committee_id=C00580100&recipient_name=kazan&two_year_transaction_period=2020&line_number=F3P-28A
http://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?cycle=2020&data_type=processed&committee_id=C00580100&recipient_name=kazan&two_year_transaction_period=2020&line_number=F3P-28A
The White House repeatedly denied the CDC permission to brief the public on the coronavirus, report says
https://www.businessinsider.com/cdc-denied-permission-to-brief-public-about-coronavirus-yahoo-2020-7
I hate sore losers. Amy McGrath didn't cheat to win. Democratic establishment didn't cheat Charles Booker out of winning. Both candidates presented a platform to the people of Kentucky and they picked. The fact Amy McGrath wasn't congratulated is a terrible look for Booker, idc!
https://twitter.com/WonderKing82/status/1278719364594835456?s=09
A number of supermarkets in the UK have removed some coconut water and oil from their shelves after it emerged the products were made with fruit picked by monkeys.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53276071
China's Second Wave of Coronavirus Declining
https://time.com/5862482/china-beijing-coronavirus-second-wave-covid19-xinfadi/
Oglala Sioux Tribe Votes to Ban Trump, South Dakota Gov. from Mount Rushmore
https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/oglala-sioux-tribe-votes-to-ban-president-trump-south-dakota-gov-from-mount-rushmore/
MLB and the MLBPA have announced the results from the first round of COVID-19 testing. There were 38 positive tests (31 players, 7 staff members) out of 3,185 samples collected, a rate of 1.2%. 19 different clubs had one or more positive tests.
https://twitter.com/Feinsand/status/1279154926942388225?s=19
Joaquin Phoenix is a living legend. He uses his large platform for the greater good, and to speak up on not only humanitarian issues, but issues regarding all species. He’s a true vegan king, and we should all strive to be like him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ptPnrROTpk
MLB has 38 positive COVID-19 tests as training resumes; 31 players and 7 staff among 19 teams.
Aurora's interim police chief has fired two of the three officers who posed for a photo reenacting a chokehold at the site of Elijah McClain's violent arrest — the third already had resigned — and terminated another who received the photo.
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/07/03/elijah-mcclain-aurora-police-photos-officers/
Biden becomes emotional speaking to NEAToday, largest labor union in the nation: Everything Changed When the World Saw George Floyd Say 'Mama, I Can't Breathe' https://newsweek.com/biden-everything-changed-when-world-saw-george-floyd-say-mama-i-cant-breathe-1515376
Many of the seats at Trump’s speech tonight at Mount Rushmore are being ziptied together, guaranteeing no social distancing for scores of people attending the event.
https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1279168956339798018?s=20
What was it about George Floyd’s killing that struck a nerve with so many people, especially white people? That’s the question being raised by a Pennsylvania mother whose daughter was killed three years ago by a white man. There were no protests and no vows to confront the systemic racism that she says her neighbors only whisper about in the predominantly white suburban community to which she moved to escape big-city life. Our colleague Jenna Johnson explores the question of how committed Americans are to change in this moment of reckoning and how long it will last. | “Where was this crowd June 28, 2017?” she said, uttering words she hadn’t planned to say until just then. “I will ask it again: Where was this crowd on June 28, 2017?”
https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=596b71ccade4e24119b3a559&s=5eff101ffe1ff6482db32ee8
At least eight Secret Service agents are currently holed up in a hotel in Phoenix, some suffering the flu-like coronavirus symptoms after coming down with Covid-19 while preparing for a visit by Vice President Mike Pence, sources say
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/03/politics/secret-service-coronavirus-trump/index.html
New Trump Administration Memo Fosters Doubts About Russian Bounties
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/politics/memo-russian-bounties.html
U.S. Coronavirus Cases Are Rising Sharply, but Deaths Are Still Down https://nytimes.com/2020/07/03/health/coronavirus-mortality-testing.html
The head of the NIH and a close Fauci friend/ally: "It’s one of the great tragedies of this current moment that scientifically based public-health measures have somehow been captured as cultural or political phenomena."
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/anthony-faucis-boss-on-why-things-could-be-much-better-soon.html
Rapid Arctic meltdown in Siberia alarms scientists
https://washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/rapid-arctic-meltdown-in-siberia-alarms-scientists/2020/07/03/4c1bd6a6-bbaa-11ea-bdaf-a129f921026f_story.html
Just hours before Trump is set to speak, protesters are blocking the main road leading up to Mount Rushmore. They used vans to block the entrance. Multiple people have been illegally detained.
Donald Trump Jr's girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle tests positive for coronavirus. She is the top fund-raising official for Trump's campaign.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kimberly-guilfoyle-coronavirus-positive-donald-trump-jr-covid-19-a9601116.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/politics/kimberly-guilfoyle-trump-campaign-coronavirus.html
Under pressure, Florida will start reporting how many people hospitalized with COVID
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article243899367.html
On July 4, America will celebrate 244 years since the continental congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. NPR marks the celebration with what has become a Morning Edition tradition: the annual reading of that document
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/03/883024992/npr-reads-the-declaration-of-independence
What to the Slave Is the 4th of July? James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbOya3Ao09g
Landslide at a Jade mine in Myanmar kills over 100 workers
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/02/886963705/landslide-at-myanmar-jade-mine-kills-at-least-162
SARS-CoV-2 circulating in Brazil back in November 2019
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200701/SARS-CoV-2-circulating-in-Brazil-back-in-November-2019.aspx
Pro-Trump Twitter is running wild with rumors about an antifa flag-burning at Gettysburg on July 4th, complete with "antifa face painting" for the kids. Now Gettysburg cops are begging people to stop calling them about it.
https://thedailybeast.com/cops-want-right-wingers-to-stop-hassling-them-about-an-imaginary-antifa-attack-on-gettysburg
Florida breaks coronavirus record with over 11K new cases reported in one day
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-florida-coronavirus-saturday-july-4-20200704-e5lqdwvuhrcb5f2ynyplzprtrq-story.html
‘Zombie Fires’ in the Arctic Pump Out Carbon at Record Pace | Arctic fires emitted 16.3 million metric tons of carbon — or about 60 million metric tons of carbon dioxide — in June. That’s the highest since at least 2003 and almost nine times more than the same month in 2018
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-02/arctic-fires-cause-record-jump-in-emissions-as-temperatures-soar
Trump signs Paycheck Protection Program extension
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/04/politics/trump-ppp-extension/index.html
It’s wild to read about the Bubonic Plague and how Europe’s corrupt leaders and institutions didn’t follow basic hygiene or science, causing mass death. 700 years later, America is following this backwards model while other nations follow science and reduce the spread of Covid.
Say a teacher gets sick at school, and they are out an extended time, or have to go to the hospital, is that on them? Do they foot the bills, lose all their PTO, go into the hole, or do districts who once again are knowingly sending them into harm's way pick up the costs? What happens to teachers if they are required to go back to school and get sick or worse? This is the question nobody seems to want to answer.
Yes, our founding ideals were in tension with the founding reality. But for 244 years, as reality collided with our ideals, the ideals have slowly (though often painfully) prevailed. The ideals are proving more powerful than the injustice. This is a great nation.
Republican internal polling signals a Democratic rout. The GOP has released 0 district polls conducted since April. Dems have released 17. Historically, the difference between number of polls put out by each party is HIGHLY correlated with November's result. https://cnn.com/2020/07/04/politics/partisan-polls-analysis/index.html
Nearly 3M cases and 133K deaths due to the pandemic. Domestic unrest. Record unemployment. The world’s pariah. THIS is a disaster.
The way many think of custodial staff does not reflect the value that they provide to hospitals. They are critical to infection control; we need to see these employees as skilled workers. Veterans' Hospitals Have a Cleanliness Crisis
https://theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/va-veterans-pandemic-housekeepers/613735/
"This election will decide whether we want to shrink or grow our democratic values—whether we'll leave the house of democracy built by generations of architects and activists to decay, or whether we will come together as one nation to build it up."
https://nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-erodes-america-s-foundation-fourth-july-i-pledge-rebuild-ncna1232887
Clint Lorance had been in charge of his platoon for only three days when he ordered his men to kill three Afghans stopped on a dirt road. A second-degree murder conviction and pardon followed. Today, Lorance is hailed as a hero by Trump. His troops have suffered a very different fate. Only a few hours had passed since President Trump pardoned 1st Lt. Clint Lorance and the men of 1st Platoon were still trying to make sense of how it was even possible. How could a man they blamed for ruining their lives, an officer the Army convicted of second-degree murder and other charges, be forgiven so easily? How could their president allow him to just walk free? “I feel like I’m in a nightmare,” Lucas Gray, a former specialist from the unit, texted his old squad leader, who was out of the Army and living in Fayetteville, N.C. “I haven’t been handling it well either,” replied Mike McGuinness on Nov. 15, the day Lorance was pardoned. “There’s literally no point in anything we did or said,” Gray continued. “Now he gets to be the hero . . .” “And we’re left to deal with it,” McGuinness concluded.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/clint-lorance-platoon-afghanistan/
DANA BASH: You criticized Obama for 'failed leadership' when 2 people in the US died from Ebola. Nearly 130,000 are dead from coronavirus. So is Trump showing failed leadership? @SenJoniErnst : "No. I think that the president is stepping forward."
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1279773674149740544?s=20
"We enjoy personal freedom, but we can also choose to do something better for the common good but fuck off with banning drugs and alcohol and smoking and automobile pollution and industrial pollution and banning the industrial agriculture industry which is destroying 98% of the planet and everything on it....."
The Democrats destroying America voted for Sanders and lost. They are the alt-left mentally ill deranged criminals who voted for all the "leftist" candidates (and 99% of them lost as well). If the Democrats destroying America represented the actual Democratic base (they don't), Biden would not have won the nomination, Sanders would have, and Sanders was blown the fuck out. "Anarchists" are typically Democrats but they have zero impact on the Democratic party and the Democratic candidates. The Democrats burning down the country reject the Democratic party and will either vote Green or stay home. Their candidate was Sanders and Sanders was blown out in both 2016 and 2020. If "leftists" and "anarchists" were the Democratic base, Mike Gravel or Dennis Kucinich would have won the nomination in 2008 and McCain would have went on to win the election.
Donald Trump wants to continue honoring traitors who took up arms against us in the Civil War to protect their ability to enslave, sell & kill Black Americans. This has never been a debate about honoring the complex legacy of those who actually helped *build* our great nation. twitter.com/ILGOP/status/1…
https://twitter.com/TammyforIL/status/1279792676901175297?s=20
Predominantly Black armed protesters march through Confederate memorial park in Georgia
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-usa-stone-mountain/predominantly-black-armed-protesters-march-through-confederate-memorial-park-in-georgia-idUSKBN24605G
Mississippi Election Commissioner Complains That "Blacks" Are Registering to Vote
https://www.theroot.com/mississippi-election-commissioner-complains-that-black-1844271802
Florida breaks coronavirus record with 59,036 new cases reported in one week
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-florida-coronavirus-sunday-july-5-20200705-zfezsjwvdfhj3jaopyw45473fe-story.html
4 Hospitals in Fla. County Run Out of ICU Beds as State Sets Another Record in New Daily COVID Cases | All intensive care unit (ICU) beds are currently occupied at four hospitals in Pinellas County, Florida, as the state continues to see a record spike in new cases and hospitalizations related to the novel coronavirus.
https://www.newsweek.com/4-hospitals-fla-county-run-out-icu-beds-state-sets-another-record-new-daily-covid-cases-1515485
Former Trump aide Flynn appears to make pledge to QAnon in July 4 video
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-flynn-qanon-conspiracy-theory-independence-day-speech-slogan-a9602596.html
Gianforte halts in-person campaigning after wife, running mate attend event with Guilfoyle
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/505898-gianforte-halts-in-person-campaigning-after-wife-running-mate-attend
Federal authorities in New York on Wednesday seized a shipment of weaves and other beauty accessories suspected to be made out of human hair taken from people locked inside a Chinese internment camp
https://apnews.com/fff5fc7925f09916bf6b9d5f79bb4132
41 shot overnight in NYC with at least 4 dead in citywide explosion of gun violence
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-man-fatally-shot-brooklyn-20200705-uu2vl6rmsvgt5hr6afpoye3j7i-story.html
EPA Tests Chemicals on at Least 23,000 Animals Per Year, Plans Phase Out by 2035
https://veganauthority.com/usa-epa-tests-chemicals-on-at-least-23-000-animals-per-year-plans-phase-out-by-2035/gv9776.html
Is this Cancel Culture?......@FoxNews weekend afternoons is the worst! Getting into @CNN and MSDNC territory. Watch @OANN & @newsmax instead. Much better!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1279884213055926272?s=20
The disclaimer when registering for Trump's Portsmouth rally: "In attending the event, you and any guests voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19, and waive, release, and discharge Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. ... from any and all liability."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1279882926994321408?s=20
We are happy to announce our free summer classes. Facilitated by our experienced educators and experts, these hour-long virtual programs are designed to address contemporary First Amendment issues, including media literacy, that impact us all.
https://newseumed.org/classes-training/free-summer-classes
Iran has confirmed that a building damaged by a fire at the underground Natanz nuclear site was a new centrifuge assembly center. A spokesman said the damage would “possibly cause a delay in development and production.”
https://apnews.com/6738eb091a5a26500f45c01d019c0fc9
Militias flocked to Gettysburg to foil a supposed antifa flag burning, an apparent hoax created on social media
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/hundreds-of-armed-men-went-to-gettysburg-to-defend-it-from-a-phantom-antifa-flag-burner-created-on-social-media/2020/07/04/206ee4da-bb05-11ea-86d5-3b9b3863273b_story.html
It took three months for Florida to cross 100,000 new confirmed COVID-19 cases. It took less than two weeks for the state to go from 100,000 to 200,000 cases — and the positive test rate keeps rising.
https://miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article244011507.html
Guillén felt she could not approach her chain of command with allegations, her relatives said. “She felt if she spoke, something would happen,” sister Mayra Guillén told The Post. “I now realize everything leads back to them harassing her at work.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/07/05/vanessa-guillen-remains-identified-ft-hood/
A federal judge has ruled ICE unlawfully transferred thousands of unaccompanied children who turned 18 to adult detention facilities without considering alternatives, in violation of a 2013 law.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/us-judge-rules-ice-unlawfully-jails-unaccompanied-migrant-children-once-they-turn-18/2020/07/02/6a8d6cd4-bc91-11ea-bdaf-a129f921026f_story.html
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