“After all, tomorrow is another day.” -- Margaret Mitchell
Deaths
US: 219,695 (+413)
World: 1,081,419 (+3960)
Cases
US: 7,991,998 (+46,493)
World: 37,740,724 (+281,448)
Countdown: 23 days.
National Coming Out Day: 20 people who came out in 2020. From a former GOP congressman to a Tony Award-winning actor, a long list of entertainers and notables came out as LGBTQ this year.
Editorial: The GOP “court packing” nonsense is just a distraction. It’s 2020’s version of “But her emails!” Don’t fall for it. Vote all of the Trump Party out of office. And never forget that McConnell wouldn’t allow any federal judges to be brought before the Senate during Obama’s final two years. That’s why there were so many open positions when Trump took office. McConnell abused his power to pack the federal courts with far right unqualified judges. He has damaged this country more than anyone else.
You Can’t Change This Hatred—You Have to Outvote It. I think it’s time to stop saying that we need to understand these people. I think we do understand them: We understand that they have dug in their heels so deeply, they will not be moved by anything—not facts or data or truth or their own eyes. We understand that there is no political scandal massive enough, no President’s Tweet reckless enough, no legislation predatory enough to alter their allegiance. We understand that the past three years of viciousness and ineptitude haven’t tempered their passions but ignited them. We understand that the image of an angry white, American male God is so burned into their brains, that they see no conflict with a religion devoid of love or a world absent diversity or a theology made of malice. We understand that infidelity, dishonesty, obscenity, and cruelty are no longer liabilities to those they would have lead them. We understand that the FoxNews poison has so fully circulated through their systems that truth is no longer necessary. We understand that white supremacists in the Cabinet and Russian infiltration in our elections and children separated from their parents are acceptable collateral damage to winning. We understand that their capacity to rationalize away human rights atrocities now borders on complete delusion...We don’t come to this understanding with any joy or self-satisfaction—we come to it with sober despair and the deepest grief, because we know practically speaking that right now they are unreachable.
Dr. Fauci says his words in a new Trump ad touting the President's pandemic response are "out of context" and used without his permission.
Covid-19 virus 'survives on some surfaces for 28 days'. Even so, these results highlight the need to wash hands as well as touchscreens regularly and to avoid touching one's face in order to minimise the risk of infection.
GOP governors in spiking states strain for silver linings. -- Never trust the GOP. They have been trying to kill you since this whole thing started.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy donated nearly $700,000 to Trump's convention, new filings show. — But he’s not trying to slow down the mail or anything. Mmm hmm.
Durbin: Republicans have been "packing the court for the past three and a half years, and they brag about it".
Are We Rome Yet? It wasn’t a single catastrophic collapse. It was a slow, lumbering, messy deterioration. When you look at what is happening to the United States right now you see something very similar. It’s not being caused by one single silver bullet of a threat. It’s many things happening at once, whether it’s lack of investment in core activities, whether it’s diminishing trust in institutions, whether it’s growing corruption, whether it’s inequality.
Is it safe to travel for the holidays this year?
Iran has highest day death toll from virus, currency plunges.
The litany of errors shows that the March 13 police shooting of Breonna Taylor in her home was more than the result of a few bad apples, revealing "systemic failures" across LMPD, as well as “a pervasive failure of training, supervision and management."
‘Sesame Street’ will air a special later this month called “The Power of We” to urge children who encounter racism or hear someone else be the victim of it to call it out. — Guess all the MAGAts will be out protesting Sesame Street now.
Fire breaks out on Mount Kilimanjaro, says Tanzania National Park.
Eleven Tasmanian devils have been reintroduced to mainland Australia, more than 3,000 years after they died out there.
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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