Monday, September 28, 2020

And another day of devastation, national security concerns, calls for an investigation, leaked databases, subjugating women, virus cases on the rise again, jurors used as shields, and ‘sliding toward extinction’ comes to a close:

“Maybe he doesn't want the American people, all of you watching tonight, to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes ... So if he's paid zero, that means zero for troops, zero for vets, zero for schools or health." — Hillary Clinton, 2016.

Deaths

US: 209,808 (+355)

World: 1,006,379 (+3990)

Cases

US: 7,361,611 (+40,268)

World: 33,549,873 (+245,207)

Countdown: 36 days.

Trump tax records show duplicity. That's devastating for his campaign. President Donald Trump told the tax man he was the country's biggest loser, according to Internal Revenue Service filings obtained by The New York Times, and that will make it harder for him to win re-election.

Ethics experts see national security concern in Trump’s debt. Revelations that President Donald Trump is personally liable for more than $400 million in debt are casting a shadow over his presidency that ethics experts say raises national security concerns he could be manipulated to sway U.S. policy by organizations or individuals he’s indebted to.

Trump went even further than other uber-rich to shrink taxes. U.S. tax law has long been kind to big real estate developers. It allows them myriad legal loopholes and breaks that can significantly shrink their tax bills. The law became even more beneficial to them after Trump’s Republican allies in Congress pushed through his $1.5 trillion tax overhaul, which took effect in 2018.

In 2011, Donald Trump said lower-income Americans should have to pay taxes to "be a part of the game" and said he paid "a lot". -- Because he’s a racist.

Top House Republican calls for investigation into source of NYT story on Trump's tax documents. -- But doesn’t call for an investigation into the actual tax documents themselves. The Trump Party is obviously all about “law and order.”

The wealthy are the real welfare queens and Donald Trump is their king. Their talking points come from none other than Ronald Reagan who helped usher in the era of the welfare queen; the Black woman who doesn’t work, pays no taxes, and lives a lavish life—the cars! the television sets!—off of government welfare. Forty years later, this vision of the lazy and self-indulgent Black woman still resonates. How many complaints do we hear about food stamp beneficiaries daring to buy steak or brand name cereal? If my tax dollars are paying for their meals, the line of thinking goes, they should obviously be eating gruel. But low-income Americans pay taxes—and a lot more than the current president—as Twitter demonstrated after the Times story broke.

Barrett tied to faith group ex-members say subjugates women. President Donald Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court has close ties to a charismatic Christian religious group that holds men are divinely ordained as the “head” of the family and faith. Former members of the group, called People of Praise, say it teaches that wives must submit to the will of their husbands.

Leaked Database Shows Trump Campaign Targeted Black Americans for Voter Suppression in 2016. With 36 days to go until the next presidential election, we’re being reminded that there are still a lot of unanswered questions about the 2016 campaign. Questions like how did the Trump team use all that data that was taken from Facebook users without their consent? A new investigation from Channel 4 News reveals that, in part, the voter data was employed to target Black voters with ads designed to discourage voting.

Covid-19 cases are on the rise again across the United States as more and more states have loosened restrictions put into place to slow the spread of the killer virus. — There are too many stupid people for humans to survive in the long run. 

CDC director takes aim at Trump's Covid adviser: 'Everything he says is false'. Dr Robert Redfield was overheard by an employee of NBC News on a flight from Atlanta to Washington. According to NBC, Redfield criticized Scott Atlas, a radiologist and Fox News talking head added to the taskforce last month. “Everything he says is false,” Redfield said about Atlas, NBC reported. Redfield later confirmed he had been talking about Atlas.

Children have 44 percent lower odds of catching COVID-19 than adults, according to an analysis led by the president of Britain's Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health.

Teachers in Little Rock announce they will not report to in-person classes.

Feds to ship millions of tests in bid to reopen K-12 schools. Trump announced Monday that the federal government will begin distributing millions of rapid coronavirus tests to states this week and urged governors to use them to reopen schools for students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

Grand jury member says Kentucky AG used 'jurors as a shield,' seeks to have transcripts released. The motion filed Monday also asks that the jurors be allowed to speak on the case as a matter of public interest.

'Sliding towards extinction': koala may be given endangered listing as numbers plummet. The species is among 28 animals being assessed for potential upgrade of their threat status, federal government says.

A drone carrying a human kidney flew over the Las Vegas desert. Experts say it's the future of organ transportation.

Liquid water on Mars? New research indicates buried 'lakes'. The existence of liquid water on Mars — one of the more hotly debated matters about our cold, red neighbor — is looking increasingly likely.

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

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