Tuesday, September 8, 2020

And another day of insults, fact checks, predictions, pauses, backtracking, resignations, a 60-degree plunge, investigations, confessions, defiance, and fear comes to a close:

“Donald Trump was endorsed by Osama bin Laden’s niece. Joe Biden was endorsed by Donald Trump’s niece. Enough said.” -- Jon Cooper

“We hope when you return back to your colleges you have a little more safety and a little less ‘Animal house.’ Because that’s what we need right now.” -- Jay Inslee

Deaths

US: 194,032 (+498)

World: 901,822 (+4980)

Cases

US: 6,514,231 (+28,656)

World: 27,733,330 (+247,842)

Countdown: 56 days.

DOJ is seeking to take over Trump's defense in a defamation lawsuit from a writer who accused him of rape, and federal lawyers asked a court to allow a move that could put American taxpayers on the hook for any money she might be awarded. -- WTAF? This doesn’t seem like a good use of taxpayer money.

Trump eyes spending $100 million of his own money in reelection bid: report. Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) have spent over $800 million on the president's reelection bid. Biden and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) have spent approximately $414 million through July. -- This is probably not going to happen. More likely it’s a subtle, desperate call to his supporters to give him more money. (But see the story above.) He thinks everyone but him is a sucker.

Trump: Harris would be an 'insult' as first female president. "People don't like her. Nobody likes her. She could never be the first woman president. She could never be. That would be an insult to our country," Trump told a crowd of supporters in North Carolina. -- He’s such a racist dick.

Biden and Trump just released new ads. We fact checked them both.

Trump is preparing to again release a list of potential Supreme Court nominees, one that voters can compare to rival Joe Biden’s promise to nominate a Black woman to the high court if given the chance.

Experts predicted a coronavirus pandemic years ago. Now it's playing out before our eyes. — It was almost identical to the situation that we are currently in.

AstraZeneca pauses coronavirus vaccine trial after unexplained illness in volunteer.

More than half a million children in the U.S. have had COVID-19.

COVID-19 cases rise in U.S. Midwest and Northeast, deaths fall for third week. Several states in the U.S. Midwest and Northeast have seen new COVID-19 cases increase for two weeks in a row, though nationally both new infections and deaths last week remained on a downward trend.

Hundreds of college students have tested positive since returning to campus, and now many schools are backtracking by sending students home to continue classes virtually.

England to set tough new socialising rules after virus spike. From Sept. 14, groups of more than six people will be banned from meeting and fined if they fail to comply, Johnson will say.

Rochester police chief, entire command staff resign following death of Daniel Prude.

From heat to snow: Rocky Mountains see 60-degree plunge. Summer came to an abrupt halt in parts of the Rocky Mountains on Tuesday as temperatures reaching into the 90s plunged about 60 degrees in less than 24 hours, with a powerful surge of cold air from Canada unleashing snow and damaging winds in several states.

‘An unprecedented event’: More than 300,000 acres in Washington have burned since Monday.

Congress is launching an investigation into a series of deaths at Fort Hood in Texas. Nearly 30 soldiers have died at the base this year — at least nine of them under unusual or suspicious circumstances.

Myanmar soldiers confess to Rohingya massacre: 'Shoot all that you see'. The testimony marks the first time members of Myanmar’s military have admitted to what the U.N. and international prosecutors call a genocidal campaign against the Rohingya. His unit carried out the order, the private says, raping women first before killing them along with children and the elderly. The troops buried 30 bodies in a mass grave near a cell phone tower and an army base, the soldier says. “The Muslim men were shot on their foreheads and kicked into the grave,” the soldier says. -- There’s more. This shit needs to end.

Brazil eyes coronavirus vaccine rollout in January, acting health minister says. -- Mmm hmm.

These three women stood up to Europe's longest-serving dictator. Here's what happened to them.

Fearing virus, parents in Spain rise against back to school. Many of the defiant parents, including López, are also ready to stand up to the country’s rigid, one-size-fits-all rule of mandatory in-school education, even if that means facing charges for truancy, which in Spain can be punished with three to six months in prison.

Mexico's transgender community are in fear after the gruesome killing of a second transgender woman in northern Mexico, amplifiing calls for greater protections in the Latin American nation.

Wreckage of German World War II battleship found off Norway. Gun turrets and a Nazi-era swastika were captured in underwater images taken by Statnett and televised by Norwegian public broadcaster NRK.

Marketers are gathering data on your kids from the apps they use, study finds.

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

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