And another day of middle fingers, Kavanaugh keen to suppress votes, threats to voting rights, white extremists, another police killing, and a rape crisis comes to a close:
“Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?” -- T.S. Eliot
Deaths
US: 232,084 (+1039)
World: 1,171,302 (+6787)
Cases
US: 9,038,030 (+75,247)
World: 44,236,088 (+459,502)
Countdown: 7 days.
The Only Middle Finger Available. Besides the occasional dissenting academic and brave business owner or ordinary citizen, Trump is, for better or worse, the foremost symbol of resistance to the overwhelming woke cultural tide that has swept along the media, academia, corporate America, Hollywood, professional sports, the big foundations, and almost everything in between...To put it in blunt terms, for many people, he’s the only middle finger available — to brandish against the people who’ve assumed they have the whip hand in American culture.
Brett Kavanaugh Lays Out a Plan to Help Trump Steal the Election. Minutes before the US Senate confirmed Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Monday evening, the court issued a 5-3 decision to throw out mail ballots in Wisconsin that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive afterward. The ruling by the court’s conservative majority is a sharp reversal from April, when the Supreme Court allowed 80,000 late-arriving votes to be counted in Wisconsin’s primary. Wisconsin voters can request a mail ballot until October 29, but it takes an average of 10 days to deliver a letter in Wisconsin because of Postal Service delays. The ruling could put tens of thousands of ballots at risk of being thrown out, given that 700,000 requested mail ballots have yet to returned. Trump won Wisconsin by 23,000 votes in 2016...But the ruling’s significance goes well beyond Wisconsin. In a chilling concurring opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh echoed President Trump’s rhetoric that ballots postmarked by Election Day but arriving afterward—which are legally required to be counted in at least 18 states—could lead to perceptions of voting malfeasance and signaled he might be prepared to throw out such ballots in any post-election dispute. States that require ballots to be received by Election Day “want to avoid the chaos and suspicions of impropriety that can ensue if thousands of absentee ballots flow in after election day and potentially flip the results of an election,” Kavanaugh wrote. “And those States also want to be able to definitively announce the results of the election on election night, or as soon as possible thereafter.” Kavanagh’s ruling, which no other justice joined, was released at nearly the exact same time Trump tweeted: “Big problems and discrepancies with Mail In Ballots all over the USA. Must have final total on November 3rd.”...Kavanaugh’s ruling is a green light for Trump to contest the results of the election and sends a disturbing signal about the willingness of a conservative-dominated Supreme Court to once again install a GOP president.
The Supreme Court’s new decision on Wisconsin mail-in ballots threatens a century of voting rights law. What is surprising, however, is two concurring opinions by Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, each of which takes aim at one of the most foundational principles of American constitutional law: the rule that the Supreme Court of the United States has the final word on questions of federal law but the highest court in each state has the final word on questions of state law.
Trump appears to give a pass to the domestic kidnapping plot against Whitmer. Trump repeatedly attacked Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, during his rally in Lansing, Michigan, on Tuesday, at one point taking credit for the FBI thwarting a plot to kidnap her and then immediately downplaying the actual threat that had been posed to Whitmer. -- He is such a disgusting human being.
The White Extremist Group Patriot Front Is Preparing For A World After Donald Trump. Those are just some of the hundreds of messages exchanged by the members of Patriot Front, a 3-year-old white supremacist organization that has grown into one of the most active hate groups in the United States. The messages reveal a sophisticated network of extremists who are training for violence. The men, who believe the United States is a nation that belongs only to white people, wear uniforms made up of bomber jackets, face coverings, and beige khakis, mandate weight loss and intense workouts, and regularly practice hand-to-hand combat. Some openly call themselves “supremacist” and revere Hitler and Mussolini...As the United States hurtles toward the presidential election, the country seems ready to forget that its own homegrown fascism predated President Donald Trump — and to ignore that it will last after he leaves office. Yet for its part, Patriot Front couldn't care less about the results of the upcoming election.
Study Shows Covid-19 Antibodies Waning Over Time, Suggesting Immunity Might Wear Off. If confirmed, results suggest widespread long-term herd immunity will be difficult to achieve.
Almost 3 million cases of coronavirus have been reported worldwide in the past seven days, a global high, WHO says.
Spared early on, 'Trump country' now leads in coronavirus cases, deaths.
NFL reports 19 new cases of COVID-19.
Fatal Police Shooting In Philadelphia Sparks Protests, Clashes Overnight. The man's father, Walter Wallace Sr., told the newspaper he estimated police shot his son 10 times. "Why didn't they use a Taser?" he said, according to the Inquirer. "His mother was trying to defuse the situation." "He has mental issues," he said, adding that his son was on medication. "Why you have to gun him down?"
Black people in England and Wales are nine times more likely to be stopped and searched by police than white people, new official figures show.
The absolutely bonkers threat Donald Trump made this week. Let's be very clear what Trump is doing here: He is threatening to withhold federal aid -- or some sort of other assistance -- the next time Pennsylvania needs it because the state's governor, according to the President, made it difficult to find a site to hold a campaign rally. Yes, really.
The Trump administration is fighting in federal court to block states from giving billions of dollars in emergency food stamps to the lowest-income Americans during the coronavirus crisis. — The cruelty is the point.
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected the Justice Department’s attempt to be the defendant in E Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against President Trump.
Texas reverses decision that allowed social workers to deny LGBTQ, disabled clients
A state regulatory board reinstated nondiscrimination protections that had been removed this month at the recommendation of Gov. Greg Abbott.
Trump admin to be hit with lawsuit over hunting expansion at nearly 150 wildlife refuges, hatcheries. The Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice of intent to sue the agency on Tuesday, arguing that the government didn’t fully analyze the impacts of the decision to endangered species including birds and jaguars.
Support for populist beliefs in Europe has fallen markedly over the past year, the Guardian/YouGov-Cambridge Globalism Project shows.
For the fifth consecutive day in Poland, thousands of people protested on the streets against a top court ruling that amounts to a near-total ban on abortion.
‘I’m alive but not living’: Survivors of Bangladesh’s rape crisis. With four reported rapes a day and many more unreported, survivors and activists say anyone could be next. Women’s lives are dictated by a rape culture which stigmatises and revictimises the victims, further impeding their physical and psychological wellbeing.
Air Pollution Contributes To 500,000 Newborn Deaths A Year.
Health panel proposes colon cancer tests start at 45, not 50.
Hurricane Zeta, the 11th hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic season, would be the fifth named storm to make landfall in Lousiana this year — the most since the state started keeping records in 1851.
Jon Stewart to host new series on Apple TV+.
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Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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