Wednesday, May 20, 2020

And another day of mail-in voting, threats, changes, plans, taxpayer-funded dinners, transcripts, Jane Roe’s confession, manipulating data, extreme poverty, the birth of a planet, and evidence of a parallel universe where time runs backward comes to a close:

“There may have been many big bangs, one of which created our universe. The other bangs created other universes.” -- Brian Greene

Deaths
US: 94,994 (+1461)
World: 329,731 (+4821)

Countdown: 167 days.

Trump Repeats Unfounded Claims About Mail-In Voting, Threatens Funding To 2 States.

Trump slams Michigan, Nevada for expanding voting by mail, but drops funding threat.

Progressives See Coronavirus Crisis As A Chance To Make Big, Lasting Policy Changes.

'We've been muzzled': CDC sources say White House putting politics ahead of science.

CDC quietly releases detailed plan for reopening America.

Wisconsin state legislators have introduced a new bill aimed at sending absentee ballot applications to all registered voters during a statewide emergency following the state's chaotic presidential primary held amid the onset of the coronavirus.

Pompeo's elite taxpayer-funded dinners raise new concerns. Until the coronavirus shut them down in March, the gatherings were known as "Madison Dinners" — elaborate, unpublicized affairs that Pompeo and his wife, Susan Pompeo, began in 2018 and held regularly in the historic Diplomatic Reception Rooms on the government's dime.

Where are the transcripts? Flynn-Kislyak calls stay secret as requests for them grow.

Jane Roe’s Deathbed Confession: Anti-Abortion Conversion ‘All an Act’ Paid for by the Christian Right.

The next stage of reopening? Manipulating coronavirus data.

Trump allies recruiting ‘pro-Trump’ doctors to prescribe rapid reopening. — Doctors whose advice should never be taken under consideration.

The World Bank says the coronavirus pandemic could push as many as 60 million people into extreme poverty, which it defines as having to live on less than $1.90 per day.

US demands removal of sexual health reference in UN's Covid-19 response. — Of course.

NASA scientists detect evidence of parallel universe where time runs backward.

Astronomers believe they have observed the first direct evidence of planet birth in a young star system 520 light-years away.

Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.

Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.