Yes. This feels like a very dangerous time.
“I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you.” -- Donald Trump telling Leslie Stahl one time exactly why he attacks the press.
Deaths
US: 226,149 (+927)
World: 1,129,520 (+6536)
Cases
US: 8,520,307 (+63,654)
World: 41,029,422 (+381,856)
Countdown: 14 days.
Tax records show Trump maintains Chinese bank account. An analysis of Trump's tax records by the Times shows that the President holds a previously unreported bank account in China that was not included on his public financial disclosures because it is held under a corporate name. Trump also maintains bank accounts in Britain and Ireland...While the tax records don't show how much money has moved through Trump's foreign accounts, the Internal Revenue Service mandates that filers disclose the portions of their incomes coming from foreign countries. Trump International Hotels Management reported only a few thousand dollars from China.
Trump abruptly ends '60 Minutes' interview before planned taping of joint appearance with Pence. Facing a major national polling deficit against Biden, Trump has grown combative this week, lobbing accusations and insults as time runs out to win back voters.
USA Today supports Joe Biden in first ever presidential endorsement. Paper makes appeal to undecided voters, saying Trump has handled the pandemic poorly and made over 20,000 false claims.
50 former intelligence officials warn that NY Post story on Hunter Biden sounds like Russian disinformation.
“It’s a dereliction of duty to write about this fake Hunter Biden scandal without mentioning, up top, that Trump was impeached for trying to manufacture fake evidence for it.” — Amanda Marcotte
Half of Trump supporters believe QAnon's imaginary claims. A full 50 percent of President Trump’s supporters now believe the bizarre, false claims about an international ring of child sex traffickers at the core of the extremist conspiracy theory known as QAnon, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll — a disturbing sign of how susceptible partisans have become to bogus stories in an age of rampant polarization and unbridled social media. — Cult45.
Joe Biden’s transition team is vetting a handful of Republicans for potential Cabinet positions — despite doubts it will win him new support from the right and the risk it will enrage the left.
A Miami police officer is facing disciplinary action after he was photographed wearing a “Trump 2020” face mask while in uniform at a polling place. -- That’s called voter intimidation. And it’s illegal.
Millennials are losing faith in democracy, study suggests. Young people are less satisfied with democracy and more disillusioned than at any other time in the past century, especially in Europe, North America, Africa and Australia, a study by the University of Cambridge has found...The main reason behind the disillusion with democracy among young people was inequality of wealth and income, the report said, citing figures showing that Millennials make up around a quarter of the US population but hold just 3% of the wealth. Baby Boomers held 21% of the wealth at the same age.
Videos From Right-Wing Site That Preaches ‘The Left Ruins Everything’ Assigned In Ohio School. PragerU videos were recently assigned in an Ohio classroom. Turns out, the right-wing site is looking to further its influence in K-12 settings. Other PragerU videos on its website dissect issues in five-minute clips and have titles such as “There Is No Gender Wage Gap,” “How to Steal an Election: Mail-In Ballots,” and “Is Islam a Religion of Peace?”...“America is not being fairly portrayed. Many schools are implementing anti-racist Black Lives Matter curriculum and The 1619 Project.”...In the OANN interview, Johnson said the program has signed up “so many” educators. “Seeing what they’re saying when they join the discussion forum, these are people who value children, value children’s education, and they are just heartbroken by what they see happening in schools and the leftist indoctrination. This is a place where they can come and fight against that,” she said. — Yes, it’s the path that leads to fascism.
The coronavirus pandemic has caused nearly 300,000 more deaths than expected in a typical year. The coronavirus pandemic has left about 285,000 more people dead in the United States than would be expected in a typical year, two-thirds of them from covid-19 itself and the rest from other causes.
Studies Point To Big Drop In COVID-19 Death Rates. Two new peer-reviewed studies are showing a sharp drop in mortality among hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The drop is seen in all groups, including older patients and those with underlying conditions, suggesting that physicians are getting better at helping patients survive their illness. -- It’s not just death that’s the issue. It’s the long term consequences from having it.
McConnell urged White House not to make a deal on stimulus bill ahead of election.
Emails threatening Florida voters to "vote for Trump or else!" linked to overseas servers. Dozens of voters in a heavily Democratic county in Florida and across several states reported receiving emails on Thursday appearing to come from a right-wing group threatening to "come after" them unless they vote for President Trump. But an examination of the messages, now under investigation by state and federal authorities, shows they were sent via servers located overseas, raising questions about their origin amid concerns about voter intimidation just two weeks before Election Day. Early voting began in Florida on Monday.
Pat Robertson reports that he has been told by God that Trump will win reelection ... and it will bring about the beginning of the End Times. -- Because an asteroid will hit Earth more than five years later.
Ghislaine Maxwell denied from keeping Epstein testimony secret.
Lawyers say they can't find the parents of 545 migrant children separated by Trump administration. -- Remember, this was always the plan.
Justice Dept says Trump can't be sued for denying rape accusation. Attorneys for the Department of Justice (DOJ) argued Monday that President Trump cannot be sued for denying writer E. Jean Carroll’s rape accusation because he dismissed her claims in his official capacity at the White House. — WTF? Some animals are more equal than others.
The Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google for allegedly abusing its power and dominance over smaller rivals. It is the most significant action the federal government has taken against a tech company in two decades.
Democrats Propose 'Section 230' Changes, Say Facebook Algorithms Cradle Violent Extremists. “Their algorithms are based on exploiting primal human emotions—fear, anger, and anxiety—to keep users glued to their screens, and thus regularly promote and recommend white supremacist, anti-Semitic, and other forms of conspiracy-oriented content.”
A deepfake bot on Telegram is violating women by forging nudes from regular pics. Free, easy and requiring just a single still photo, the deepfake bot has produced more than 100,000 fake pornographic images -- and that's just the ones posted publicly online. “The deepfake phenomenon is even more alarming because it doesn't look Photoshopped. It's much more easy for somebody without the technical knowledge to make one.”...With this Telegam bot, any woman who's ever posted a selfie of herself from the waist up could be a potential victim. Even women out walking could be victimized if surreptitiously snapped by the wrong stranger. And in one of the most disturbing forms of abuse with this bot, photographs of children have been uploaded to the bot's AI, automatically manipulated to sexualize the child and then shared publicly...The bot also underscores how a fixation on electoral deepfakes misses wider damage caused by pornographic ones, which are much more common and already devastating victims.
Kentucky judge orders grand jury records from the Breonna Taylor investigation to be released, citing the need to show if "publicly elected officials are being honest;" jurors will now be able to speak publicly.
AP finds most arrested in protests aren’t leftist radicals. President Donald Trump portrays the hundreds of people arrested nationwide in protests against racial injustice as violent urban left-wing radicals. But an Associated Press review of thousands of pages of court documents tells a different story. Very few of those charged appear to be affiliated with highly organized extremist groups, and many are young suburban adults from the very neighborhoods Trump vows to protect from the violence in his reelection push to win support from the suburbs.
Administration officials alarmed by White House push to fast track lucrative 5G spectrum contract, sources say. Senior officials throughout various departments and agencies of the Trump administration tell CNN they are alarmed at White House pressure to grant what would essentially be a no-bid contract to lease the Department of Defense's mid-band spectrum -- premium real estate for the booming and lucrative 5G market -- to Rivada Networks, a company in which prominent Republicans and supporters of President Donald Trump have investments.
Satellite images indicate Russia is preparing to resume testing its nuclear-powered cruise missile.
Oregon now requires employers to provide masks to workers. New guidance from the Oregon Health Authority released Monday requires businesses owners with indoor and outdoor spaces open to the public and employers with public or private workplaces to make free masks, face coverings or face shields available to employees.
More than 200 former residents of coronavirus quarantine facilities in Australia are being urged to test for blood-transmitted diseases, including HIV, after authorities admitted they used the same blood-testing devices for multiple guests.
Ebola Never Went Away. But Now There's A Drug To Treat It. This month the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted formal approval to an antibody cocktail from the pharmaceutical company Regeneron that's been shown to reduce an Ebola patient's chances of dying dramatically.
NASA makes history with sample of asteroid soil. After spending nearly two years circling the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft used its robotic arm to gather pieces of the space rock.
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