And another Constitution Day—hopefully not our last—comes to a—No, fuck that. This shit is getting worse: “abuse of power,” sedition charges, “patriotic education,” 11% of 18-39 year olds believe Jews caused the Holocaust? You see the red flags. You know the danger. This shit is literally happening in real time. Stand against it:
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessing of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” -- The US Constitution
Deaths
US: 202,213 (+865)
World: 950,545 (+5479)
Cases
US: 6,874,596 (+46,295)
World: 30,348,579 (+316,603)
Countdown: 47 days.
There are no good choices. In shifting so much responsibility to individual people, America’s government has revealed the limits of individualism. We have been set up to fail.
American Exceptionalism is Another Casualty of Our Climate Disasters. It has been too easy for the United States to think of climate change as an abstraction, with its most related nightmares as problems only for other places—like Kirabati, a small island nation drowning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, or disastrous droughts across North Africa and the Middle East forcing people to migrate to Europe. But we’ve collectively been ignoring the problem on our own doorstep. In yet another blow to American exceptionalism, the climate refugee crisis is here.
Barr says calls for coronavirus lockdown are the 'greatest intrusion on civil liberties' other than slavery in US history. The comments came minutes after he slammed the hundreds of Justice Department prosecutors working beneath him, equating them to preschoolers, in a defense of his own politically tuned decision making in the Trump administration. — Barr is dangerous. He needs to go.
Biden rips Barr's comments on coronavirus restrictions as 'sick'.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan says Attorney General William Barr's suggestions to charge her are "chilling and the latest abuse of power from the Trump administration". Barr, The New York Times reported, asked prosecutors in the Justice Department's civil rights division to investigate if they could charge Durkan as a result of protests this summer, when some protesters established a police-free zone in downtown Seattle. "The Department of Justice cannot become a political weapon operated at the behest of the President to target those who have spoken out against this administration's actions," Durkan, a former US attorney, said in a statement. "That is an act of tyranny, not of democracy."
Attorney General Barr suggests charging protesters with sedition in call to federal prosecutors.
Justice Dept.: Sedition charge may apply to protest violence. In a memo to U.S. attorneys Thursday obtained by The Associated Press, the Justice Department emphasized that federal prosecutors should aggressively go after demonstrators who cause violence — and even sedition charges could potentially apply. The sedition statute doesn’t require proof of a plot to overthrow the government, the memo read. It instead could be used when a defendant tries to oppose the government’s authority by force. -- This shit is getting bad, people. They are trying to squash your Constitutional right to protest.
Trump calls for 'patriotic education,' says anti-racism teachings are 'child abuse'. “Our youth will be taught to love America with all of their heart and all of their souls,” Trump said. Speaking at what the White House describes as a "conference on American history," Trump said he plans to sign an executive order soon creating a "national commission to support patriotic education" called the 1776 commission and is directing funding to create a patriotic curriculum for schools. -- Trump Youth. He is such a fucking racist.
Pence's former lead coronavirus task force aide slams Trump and endorses Biden in new video.
Former DeVos chief of staff joins anti-Trump group.
“I'm not going to be a Democratic president, I'm going to be America's president." — Joe Biden
6 key lines from Joe Biden's CNN town hall.
FBI director says antifa is an ideology, not an organization, in testimony on homeland security.
Trump’s Strategy to Upend the Election Is Being Implemented in Plain Sight. In the courtrooms of battleground states across the country, lawyers associated with the Republican Party, Republican officials, and the Trump campaign—and jurists who do their bidding—are creating precisely the sort of preelection chaos that Trump wants. Because there are so many different legal challenges, lawsuits, court orders, decisions, and rulings in so many states, it is easy to miss the full picture of a strategic assault on voting rights. But that assault is occurring. Indeed, it is going according to plan...In battleground state after battleground state, Trump-aligned lawyers have ramped up efforts to restrict voting—especially voting by those who might cast ballots for Biden and other Democrats.
Federal judge says he'll block USPS policy changes nationwide. A federal judge in eastern Washington said that President Donald Trump and Postmaster Louis DeJoy, "are involved in a politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the Postal Service," and will issue a nationwide order blocking some recent changes that slowed down mail and could threaten mail-in voting.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Extends Vote By Mail Deadline, Allows Drop Boxes. -- Yay, Pennsylvania!
A new law in South Carolina allows all voters to vote absentee in the 2020 election. Now, only 5 states require voters to have an excuse beyond the ongoing coronavirus pandemic to request a mail-in ballot.
Controversial CDC guidelines were written by HHS officials, not scientists. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines that advised people without COVID-19 symptoms not to get tested were written by Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials, not scientists. — They were posted despite scientists’ objections.
Trump administration scrapped plan to send every American a mask in April, email shows.
More than half of Covid-19 patients have lasting fatigue, research suggests.
Nearly 30 Massachusetts high school students have been told to quarantine after parents sent their child to school despite knowing that the teen was positive for the coronavirus.
As colleges around the U.S. are facing COVID-19 outbreaks and crackdowns on students engaged in coronavirus-risky behavior, campuses are also facing a new threat: legal challenges from the students they're punishing.
Twisted Sister singer to anti-maskers: Don’t use our song. Twisted Sister singer Dee Snider took to social media to condemn anti-maskers who went into a Florida Target store blaring the group’s hit “We’re Not Gonna Take It” while ripping off their masks.
Donald Trump accused of sexual assault by former model Amy Dorris. Her account was also corroborated by several people she confided in about the incident. They include a friend in New York and Dorris’s mother, both of whom she called immediately after the alleged incident, as well as a therapist and friends she spoke to in the years since. All said Dorris had shared with them details of the alleged incident that matched what she later told the Guardian.
A new study reveals that roughly 11% of young adult respondents in the US believe that Jews caused the Holocaust. Nearly half were unable to name one of Europe's 40,000 camps and ghettos. “...nearly two-thirds of respondents did not know that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, and that 36% thought that "two million or fewer Jews" were murdered.”
President Trump’s businesses charged Secret Service more than $1.1 million, including for rooms in club shuttered for pandemic.
A Police Officer Who Ordered His Dog To Attack A Black Man Has Been Charged With Assault. Body camera footage published by the Salt Lake Tribune showed the man was kneeling with his hands in the air when Officer Nickolas Pearce ordered the dog to attack. Pearce is also seen repeatedly telling the dog "good boy" as Ryans screamed and writhed in pain while being bitten.
Nike released an all-black jersey to commemorate the four years since former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee to peacefully protest against systemic racism and social injustice during the National Anthem. The Icon Jersey 2.0, which retails for $150, went on sale Thursday morning and sold out in less than a minute, Nike confirmed to CNN.
Yosemite National Park closes as wildfires scorch West Coast.
Belarus to close borders with Poland and Lithuania, put troops on alert.
Michiganders urged to stay indoors as officials race to stop the spread of a dangerous mosquito-borne disease. -- It is 2020.
Several thousand people in northwest China have tested positive for a bacterial disease, authorities said on Tuesday, in an outbreak caused by a leak at a biopharmaceutical company last year.
Astronomers have just announced they have found the first intact planet orbiting a white dwarf*, the dead core of a star that was once much like the Sun. There are lots of cool things about this discovery, but one of the weirdest is that the planet is bigger than the star!
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Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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