And another day in the middle of a Trump Party hate movement comes to a close:
“Spreading the disease. Everybody needs, but no one wants to see; the way society, keeps spreading the disease.” -- Queensrÿche
Deaths
US: 198,520 (+392)
World: 928,267 (+3698)
Cases
US: 6,708,458 (+31,857)
World: 29,181,934 (+241,737)
Countdown: 51 days.
Trump baselessly accuses Democrats of 'rigging' the November election during Nevada rally. “The Democrats are trying to rig this election because that’s the only way they’re going to win,” he said to cheers and applause.
Trump Says He Will ‘Negotiate’ Third Term Because He’s ‘Entitled’ To It. Trump said Saturday that he plans to “negotiate” to run again in 2024 if he wins reelection in November, his latest in a series of comments that have alarmed critics who say he has little regard for constitutional boundaries. — This may seem far-fetched considering the 22nd Amendment and the fact he would have to somehow get the votes of a two-thirds majority of both houses of Congress or have two-thirds of state legislatures call a constitutional convention. But he’s shown nothing but contempt for the country’s laws and Constitution. He has changed so many of the country’s political norms that nothing should be taken for granted. He’s a dangerous man, desperate to stay in power because, like all authoritarian dictators, if he’s not in office then he’ll either be in prison or forced to flee the country for his safety.
“We are going to win four more years in the White House and then after that we'll negotiate, right, because we're probably, based on the way we were treated, we're probably entitled to another four after that." — Donald Trump, September 12, 2020 (Minden, NV)
"We're going to win four more years in the White House, and after we win four more years we'll ask for maybe another four or so." -- Donald Trump, September 13, 2020 (Henderson, NV)
Trump laments that people go to prison for burning the American flag.
"I know really bad people." -- Donald Trump
“Hitler’s rise (with 33% support):
- German right "forsook true conservatism"
- officials thought they could “tame” Hitler but were eventually fired
- people thought Hitler too "mediocre" to be a dictator
- Germans who opposed Nazism failed to unite against it
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But the Germans certainly didn’t know when *they* crossed this point either. These patterns shouldn’t be ignored.”
— There’s a little more. Read it all.
Michael Bloomberg plans to spend at least $100 million in Florida to support Joe Biden. — I’ll believe it when I see it.
Decision to drop Michael Flynn case was 'corrupt and politically motivated,' court-appointed lawyer says. John Gleeson's comments Friday include some of the sharpest rebukes of the Justice Department to date and directly accuse President Donald Trump's appointees of doing his bidding to protect Flynn merely because he is a political ally.
A Chinese whistleblower virologist now in hiding in the United States has dismissed claims that the COVID-19 coronavirus came from a wet market and said that she had evidence it came from Chinese military labs. -- Not sure if this is true or not, but it’s something to watch.
Summer parties, teacher shortages push suburban schools to scrap COVID-19 reopening plans. “As we are learning the hard way, the actions of a few can impact the many.”
Longtime Climate Science Denier Hired At NOAA. [Legates has] “misrepresented the science of climate change, serving as an advocate for polluting interests as he dismisses and downplays the impacts of climate change. At a time when those impacts are playing out before our very eyes in the form of unprecedented wildfires out West and super-storms back East, I cannot imagine a more misguided decision than to appoint someone like Legates to a position of leadership at an agency that is tasked with assessing the risks we face from extreme weather events."
Trump official inserted debunked climate change language into scientific documents: report.
The White House released an executive order calling for Medicare to pay the same prescription prices as other developed nations. Drug makers opposed it. It calls for Medicare to test paying the same price for certain expensive prescription drugs that other developed countries do, a "most-favored-nation price." Other nations typically pay far less for medications, in large part because their governments often determine the cost -- which runs counter to Republicans' allegiance to the free market system.
Hilary Swank Is Suing SAG-AFTRA After Being Denied Coverage For Malignant Ovarian Cysts. According to court documents, Swank is suing the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan Board of Trustees after they denied her insurance benefits for the treatment of ovarian cysts and endometriosis, allegedly citing an exclusion in the plan for “infertility treatment.” “Despite Swank’s, and her board-certified doctors’, insistence that she was not seeking coverage for fertility treatment, but only for treatment for her ovarian cysts, the Trustees dug in their heels,” the documents read. “The Trustees repeatedly said that there was no medically necessary reason to treat or monitor ovarian cysts other than for ‘infertility treatment.’” — “Medically necessary” treatment should never be determined by a for-profit organization.
Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were “fighting for their lives” Saturday after a lone gunman walked up to their parked patrol car and fired on them through an open window, officials said.
Half of households in 4 largest US cities report financial problems due to pandemic. At least half the households in all four cities report facing serious financial problems in the midst, and because, of the pandemic. The study, conducted July 1 - Aug. 3, found many households' savings are drained. It also showed many are struggling to pay rent, pay major bills and ensuring the household has enough to eat. More than half are reporting serious problems caring for their children.
How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled. “You're lying. This is gold. We take the time to clean it, take the labels off, separate it and put it here. It's gold. This is valuable." But it's not valuable, and it never has been. And what's more, the makers of plastic — the nation's largest oil and gas companies — have known this all along, even as they spent millions of dollars telling the American public the opposite...Industry companies spent tens of millions of dollars on these ads and ran them for years, promoting the benefits of a product that, for the most part, was buried, was burned or, in some cases, wound up in the ocean. Documents show industry officials knew this reality about recycling plastic as far back as the 1970s.”
There is no Bay of Pigs award, Trump. Stop making shit up.
Search engines store so much of our online activity that it's possible our daily search patterns hold clues to our mental health.
Many teachers are choosing not to return to the classroom because of the coronavirus threat, and schools across the U.S. are scrambling to find replacements. That sometimes means lowering certification requirements to help get substitutes in the door.
Ohio State University plans to cancel spring break next year to reduce the exposure of its students, faculty and staff to coronavirus.
Free college was once the norm all over America. In California, Ronald Reagan (who would later become president of the United States) was elected governor of California in 1966 and proposed that the University of California system should charge tuition to attend college. In his words, this was to “get rid of undesirables […] those who are there to carry signs and not to study might think twice to carry picket signs.” His was a campaign to maintain white supremacy by making public colleges and universities cost money. Reagan succeeds and by the 1990s, every “formerly public” school began being paid for by tuition costs, which in turn turned into student debt. This was a slap in the face to those who were protesting white supremacy, capitalism and imperialism because it put these folks in debt.
In 'Cancer Alley,' a renewed focus on systemic racism is too late. Black Americans are dying from COVID-19 at more than double the rate of other groups, which experts say owes in part to pollution in Black communities. A higher risk of cancer in these communities — surrounded by the densest concentration of petrochemical plants in the country — have led to the area gaining the unwelcome title of “Cancer Alley.” Similar situations have played out in communities across the U.S. in which Black communities have had to endure more pollution than their white neighbors.
For some strange reason, orcas are ramming into boats in northern Spain.
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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