And another day of corruption, delays, demands, creations, waves, silence, facts, faults, comebacks, openings, tricks, beheadings, firsts, ‘manifestos,’ and choosy eggs comes to a close:
“Trumpers sure do lots of racist things while trying to convince us they’re not racist.” -- John Pavlovitz
Death
US: 115,130 (+982)
World: 418,893 (+5245)
Countdown: 146 days.
Donald Trump’s Corruption Is Killing Americans. — And his base doesn’t give a shit.
Mail-in voting delays in primary cause Pennsylvania to sound alarm about November. A 17-fold increase in voters wanting to cast their ballots away from the polling precincts. — Significantly more than they were expecting.
Trump campaign demands CNN apologize for poll that shows Biden leading. — Fucking snowflake. Oh no, wait. That’s what dictators do. Fucking asshole.
Video captured by a reality TV production crew showing the death of Javier Ambler, a 40-year-old black man, while he was in police custody in Texas has reportedly been destroyed, according to local media. -- How convenient.
A "senior" corrections officer was suspended and a FedEx employee fired for their alleged roles in the creation of a video mocking George Floyd's death. — Good. There is no depth to which horrible will not go.
Widespread mask-wearing could prevent COVID-19 second waves: study. Population-wide face mask use could push COVID-19 transmission down to controllable levels for national epidemics, and could prevent further waves of the pandemic disease when combined with lockdowns, according to a British study on Wednesday.
White House goes quiet on coronavirus as outbreak spikes again across the U.S. The coronavirus is still killing as many as 1,000 Americans per day — but the Trump administration isn’t saying much about it.
Fact check: Trump blames testing for spike in COVID-19 cases. Experts fault reopening of states. Three states with some of the biggest surges in the disease caused by the coronavirus began reopening more than two weeks ago.
Coronavirus is making a comeback in Arizona three weeks after governor lifted stay-at-home order. -- Shocker.
Disney eyes July reopen for California theme parks. -- Whatever.
Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro followed Trump’s coronavirus blueprint. Now its cases are surging.
Coronavirus caused income loss for nearly half of American households.
Georgia's election chaos is a 'cautionary tale' for the Trump-Biden race.
'Always some sneaky trick': Black voters in Georgia say the state's primary meltdown was no accident. -- Nope. This is what Republicans do: make it hard for people to vote.
Trump says rallies to resume, first one in Oklahoma.
NASCAR bans Confederate flag from its races and properties.
The Trump administration is proposing a new regulation that would make it exceedingly difficult for migrants to claim asylum in the United States, according to a draft rule released by the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice.
Capitol Hill Republicans watch President Trump's eroding political standing with unease amid worries about the November election. — Vote all Republicans out of office.
'Preposterous': Court-appointed lawyer in Michael Flynn case slams DOJ attempt to drop it.
Christopher Columbus statue in Boston beheaded.
West Virginia just elected its first openly transgender official.
J.K. Rowling doubles down in what some critics call a 'transphobic manifesto'. The “Harry Potter” author said she has "five reasons for being worried about the new trans activism, and deciding I need to speak up."
The Trump administration published a new rule this week overturning an Obama-era ban on controversial hunting and trapping techniques on national preserves in Alaska.
'Blazing Saddles' is no 'Gone With the Wind' — it's always been an anti-racism, anti-white-paranoia film, as Mel Brooks explained.
A woman’s eggs appear to "choose" which sperm will become the lucky winner in conceiving a baby, a new study finds.
Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.
Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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