"Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.” -- President Kennedy, 1963.
Deaths
US: 205,471 (+965)
World: 975,465 (+6169)
Cases
US: 7,097,937 (+51,721)
World: 31,775,937 (+293,674)
Countdown: 42 days.
‘Unfathomable’: US death toll from coronavirus hits 200,000.
Editorial: The 200,000+ people who have died from Covid-19 were important. We’re currently experiencing a 9/11 death toll every three days. And Trump remains in office. And people--many people--still plan to vote for him this coming election. Don’t be one of those lost souls.
The dark subtext of Trump's 'good genes' compliment. But Trump's words recalled a violent history of eugenics, of how the "right" genes have been treated as a signifier of racial superiority. -- And people--many people--will still vote for him...because they absolutely agree with him and believe they are superior to others.
With Romney's Support, GOP Likely Has Votes To Move Ahead With Ginsburg's Replacement. -- Romney is a waste. All talk, but that’s it. Nothing but talk.
Collins to vote no on court pick before election. -- Mmm hmm.
In 2016, GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham said a Supreme Court vacancy shouldn't be filled during an election year, adding "use my words against me." Now, he's changed his position. -- It’s the Republican way.
Senate GOP plans vote on Trump’s court pick before election. It is one of the quickest confirmation efforts in recent times. No court nominee in U.S. history has been considered so close to a presidential election. And it all comes as the nation is marking the grave milestone of 200,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic. -- Republicans do what they want. Democrats never do.
Democrats urge Biden to resist filibuster, court-packing calls. Democrats interviewed by The Hill say Biden needs to stay out of it or come up with a way to keep the debate centered around what the GOP is doing now, not what Democrats will do in the future.
Women's March planned for October to protest Trump filling Ginsburg's Supreme Court seat. -- Republicans don’t give a shit about protests. They don’t care about right or wrong. They only care about power. And since they are a dying breed, they are trying to stack the courts, which will last for years, to counter Democratic progress. We all lose when you vote Republican. Stop doing it.
Democrat Joe Biden says Cindy McCain plans to endorse him for president, a stunning rebuke of President Trump by the widow of the GOP's 2008 nominee.
They're called 'naked ballots': Here's why they could play a pivotal role in the election. The [Pennsylvania] state Supreme Court ruled last week that ballots without a secrecy envelope cannot be counted. If 5% of the over 2 million Pennsylvanians and climbing voting by mail have ballots thrown out, that could lead to 100,000 ballots being tossed. Pennsylvania was decided by 44,000 votes in 2016.
President Trump at his Superspreader Event in Pennsylvania tonight: "How about Omar of Minnesota? We're going to win the state Minnesota because of her, they say. She's telling us how to run our country. How did you do where you came from?"
Ilhan Omar responds on Twitter: “Firstly, this is my country & I am a member of the House that impeached you. Secondly, I fled civil war when I was 8. An 8-year-old doesn’t run a country even though you run our country like one.”
Editorial: Trump is racist. That’s the comment.
The Pentagon reportedly redirected most of its $1 billion in pandemic funding to defense contractors — who exchanged the money for jet engine parts, body armor and other military supplies. — At a dollar a second—$3600 an hour— it would take about 32 years to spend $1 billion.
CIA assessment says Russian President Vladimir Putin is "probably directing" efforts to interfere in the 2020 election against Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Ranked choice voting in Maine a go for presidential election. Ranked choice voting will be used for the first time in a presidential race in the U.S. under a ruling Tuesday by the Maine Supreme Court, which concluded that a GOP-led petition drive intended to prevent its use came up short...Under the voting system, voters are allowed to rank all candidates on the ballot. If no one wins a majority of first-place votes, then there are additional tabulations, aided by computers, in which last-place finishers are eliminated and votes reallocated based on those supporters’ second-place choices. Transporting the ballots to Augusta for additional tabulations delays results for about a week.
Bloomberg pays fines for 32,000 felons in Florida so they can vote.
What a gift: Russia offers UN staff free virus vaccines. What do you do when Vladimir Putin offers you Russia’s new coronavirus vaccine, for free? United Nations staff in New York and around the world are now facing that choice, after the Russian president offered Tuesday to provide them the Sputnik-V vaccine in a speech to this year’s General Assembly marking the body’s 75th birthday.
In U.N. Speech, Trump Blasts China And WHO, Blaming Them For Spread Of COVID-19. -- Because they’re the ones running the country? Regardless of his claim that his Administration responded correctly, he has literally done nothing, and has no plan whatsoever to change that. Oh, except for “herd immunity.” “Herd immunity” is his plan. Don’t let him gaslight you.
At a rally in Dayton, Ohio, on Monday night, President Trump assured his admirers the virus isn't really that bad, noting that it mostly kills "elderly people" and people with "other problems," adding, "It affects virtually nobody". — I hate this man.
Here's how utterly dumb the mask-wearing debate has become. Now think of this: The booing of Husted's attempted hawking of Trump masks to the crowd came less than 24 hours before the United States marked 200,0000 Americans dead from Covid-19. The incongruity and disconnect on display is towering -- and maddening. There is no debate within the medical community about the efficacy of mask-wearing to slow the spread of Covid-19.
Colleges knew the risks but they reopened anyway. Here's how they got it all wrong.
Pandemic highlights opportunity gaps in public schools.
CDC's Halloween Guidelines Warn Against Typical Trick-Or-Treating.
The United States Has Become a Disaster Area. “For the first time in American history, all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Seminole Tribe of Florida and five territories have been approved for major disaster declarations for the same event,” a FEMA spokesperson told me, via email. The entire country is literally a disaster area.
'It smells bad, it tastes bad': how Americans stopped trusting their water.
President Trump's former top Russia adviser said the United States is increasingly seen as "an object of pity" and its standing on the world stage is eroding.
Trump could face tax fraud probe, Manhattan prosecutor says. Manhattan’s district attorney said on Monday he might have grounds to investigate President Donald Trump and his businesses for tax fraud, as he seeks to persuade a federal appeals court to let him obtain Trump’s tax returns.
Hungry with children: 1 in 3 U.S. families with kids don't have enough food. Demand for food banks has surged amid the pandemic, but the issue of food insecurity is hitting one group of Americans worse than others: Families with children.
Indian couple run street-side classes for poor students. The children, ages 4 to 14, carry book bags more than 2 kilometers (a mile) from their thatched-roof huts on the banks of the Yamuna River to this impromptu, roadside classroom. There, they receive free lessons in math, science, English and physical education, taught by a former Indian diplomat and his wife. It all began when Veena Gupta’s maid, who lives on bank of the river, complained that with schools shut, children in her impoverished community were running amok and wasting time.
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Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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