Monday, August 10, 2020

And another day of charging, 'frauding,' rejecting, throttling, quitting, restricting, mistrusting, pushing, attacking, enforcing, resigning, imposing, arresting, and linking comes to a close:

“The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.” -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Deaths

US: 166,192 (+575)

World: 738,715 (+4720)

Cases

US: 5,251,446 (+52,002)

World: 20,248,370 (+224,870)

Countdown: 85 days.

Black Lives Matter Uprisings Lead to Charges for Young Protesters. The question that this surge of activity should raise is why so many have felt compelled to take these dramatic steps, and exactly what will be solved by subjecting a new generation of people of color to harsh carceral punishments. What message is sent by sentencing Black youth to jail for protesting against their own oppression?...If this was another country we would call this authoritarianism, we would have solidarity actions to protest against it, and the U.S. government might even be threatening intervention. But this is happening here, and young adults across our nation are having their freedom threatened.

Germany: There are many indications of electoral fraud in Belarus. — Germany, please be closely watching for electoral fraud in the US election this November. We can’t trust our current government.

Belarus opposition candidate rejects election result after night of protests.

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya entered the race after her husband, an anti-gov't blogger who intended to run, was jailed. Her rallies have drawn some of the biggest crowds since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Belarus is reportedly blocking and throttling Twitter in reaction to protests.

Health officials are quitting or getting fired amid outbreak. Vilified, threatened with violence and in some cases suffering from burnout, dozens of state and local public health leaders around the U.S. have resigned or have been fired amid the coronavirus outbreak, a testament to how politically combustible masks, lockdowns and infection data have become.

Citing coronavirus, Trump administration weighs more restrictions on the US-Mexico border that could include citizens.

Nearly 100k children tested positive for COVID-19 in last two weeks of July.

Adults may not be the only Covid 'long haulers.' Some kids still have symptoms, months after falling ill.

‘It's Ridiculous': States Struggle To Accommodate COVID-19 Positive Voters.

California And Texas Health Officials: Mistrust A Major Hurdle For Contact Tracers.

Trump, coaches push for college football as cracks emerge.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr mounted a partisan attack on the Democratic Party in an interview that aired Sunday, claiming the left believes in 'tearing down the system' and pursues absolute victory as 'a substitute for religion'. — Stoking the flames of fear for votes. 

Trump Oversees All-Time Low in White Collar Crime Enforcement. The prosecution of securities fraud, antitrust violations and other such crimes has hit a record low as the pandemic slows the courts, according to one tracking service. But even before the coronavirus, the numbers were falling under the Trump administration.

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin has subpoenaed the FBI to produce documents related to the Trump-Russia investigation and is defending a probe he’s leading into Democrat Joe Biden. Democrats say the Biden probe amplifies Russian propaganda.

Chicago unrest: 100 arrested, 13 officers injured after crowds smashed windows, looted stores downtown.

Louisville police crack down on protest caravans. — They've been protesting the murder of Breonna Taylor. 

QAnon groups have millions of members on Facebook, documents show. The preliminary results of an investigation by Facebook shed new light on the scope of activity and content from the QAnon community on the platform. An internal investigation by Facebook has uncovered thousands of groups and pages, with millions of members and followers, that support the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to internal company documents reviewed by NBC News.

Lebanese government resigns after Beirut blast, public anger. Lebanon’s prime minister stepped down from his job Monday in the wake of the catastrophic explosion in Beirut that has triggered public outrage, saying he has come to the conclusion that corruption in the country is “bigger than the state.”

China has imposed sanctions on 11 Americans — including Sens. Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton — for "behaving badly on Hong Kong-related issues."

Trump and Pelosi haven't spoken in nearly 10 months.

Video shows Florida police arrest 8-year-old and try to put him in handcuffs. The attorney said the boy was a special needs student with an individualized education plan due to his disabilities. "Instead of honoring and fulfilling that plan, the school placed him with a substitute teacher who had no awareness or concern about his needs and who escalated the situation by using her hands to forcibly move him," Crump's statement said. "When he acted out, the teacher called the police, who threatened him with jail and tried to put him in handcuffs, which fell off because he was too little." — What the actual fuck?

Illinois school district says no pajamas, slippers, or hats for online classes amid coronavirus pandemic. Springfield Public Schools officials said they hope students approach online classes the same way they would attending classes in person and that means following a dress code that also bars hoods, sunglasses and bandannas, among other things. The district said students should also be "sitting up out of bed preferably at a desk or table" during remote learning, according to its school manual.

Marijuana Use During Pregnancy Linked To Autism In Children: Study.

The global coffee crisis is coming. It’s getting harder and harder to grow coffee.

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

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