And another day of elections, threats, learning Trump’s DOJ did all kinds of shady stuff, ‘pinkwashing,’ soaring car prices, Amazon devices sharing your wifi, and drought in the West raising questions of future livability comes to a close. Oh yeah. And most Americans don’t know where the Grand Canyon or Niagara Falls are located.
“We live in a two-party system. One of the two is anti-democratic. The other is not sure that's a problem.” — Jay Rosen
Deaths
US: 614,738 (+1244 over two days)
World: 3,800,588 (+23,949 over two days)
Cases
US: 34,306,446 (+41,719 over two days)
World: 176,040,522 (+873,425 over two days)
14 GOP-controlled states have passed laws to impede free elections. Donald Trump will not be “reinstated” as president by August, as some of his supporters and allegedly the former president himself seem to believe. But Republicans are rushing to change the rules to make it easier for their party to overturn the will of the voters in future elections.
Pennsylvania Republicans propose voter ID law and mail voting rollback. The bill is being pushed by the same legislators who sought to undermine the state's results in the 2020 election.
Trump-inspired death threats are terrorizing election workers. Election officials and their families are living with threats of hanging, firing squads, torture and bomb blasts, interviews and documents reveal. The campaign of fear, sparked by Trump's voter-fraud falsehoods, threatens the U.S. electoral system.
New York City is using ranked-choice voting for the first time in its mayoral primary this month. So, how does the ballot work? And how does it determine the eventual winner?
Oregon House of Representatives expels lawmaker after video shows him appearing to tell protesters how to breach the state Capitol.
Germany is rolling out a digital European Union vaccination pass this week as the continent gears up for the summer travel season. The health minister say the CovPass will allow people to enter restaurants or other venues requiring proof of vaccination.
1 year of free college tuition among Washington's vaccine lottery prizes. One of the hottest vaccine lottery prizes may not look like much at first sight, but it’s actually worth thousands of dollars. Aside from the stacks of cash you could win from the vaccine lottery, there’s another prize specifically for those ages 12-17...Thirty students will win 100 Washington Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) units.
Wait. Trump's DOJ did what? What we've learned raises more questions than it answers about how the nation's attorneys acted and what, exactly, they were looking for. But it is clear that the Justice Department under Trump clearly took steps to pursue leaks unusually aggressively, in a manner that targeted Trump's political opponents.
Trump's DOJ obtained House Democrats' data in leak investigation. Justice Department prosecutors subpoenaed Apple for data from the accounts of two Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee, including current Chairman Adam Schiff, while investigating leaks of classified information related to contacts between aides to former President Trump and Russia in the early days of the Trump administration.
This exchange between Harris and Barr suddenly became more interesting.
Trump DOJ demanded metadata on 73 phone numbers and 36 email addresses, Apple says. — It just keeps getting worse and worse.
Seized House records show just how far Trump admin would go.
Attorney General Garland vows to fight GOP efforts to curb voting access.
Texas governor announces plan to build southern border wall.
Florida Board of Education bans critical race theory from classrooms. — Can’t have yunguns knowing about how bad whites have fucked over people of color now can we?
Major corporations are being called out for “pinkwashing” as they promote pride month while supporting candidates who oppose LGBT equality.
51 percent say changing gender is morally wrong. — Um, then don’t do it. And don’t push your “morals” onto others.
Drought is here to stay in the Western U.S. How will states adapt? Water is increasingly scarce in the Western U.S. — where 72 percent of the region is in "severe" drought, 26 percent is in exceptional drought, and populations are booming...This year's aridity is happening against the backdrop of a 20-year-long drought. The past two decades have been the driest or the second driest in the last 1,200 years in the West, posing existential questions about how to secure a livable future in the region.
One of worst wildfires in Arizona history is still growing.
The Biden administration is returning more than $2 billion to military projects that had previously been set aside for the construction of former President Donald Trump's border wall.
Car prices are soaring, and they're not going to stop. The average new car price hit a record $38,255 in May, according to JD Power, up 12% from the same period a year ago.
Do you own an Amazon smart device? If so, odds are good that the company is already sharing your internet connection with your neighbors unless you've specifically told it not to.
Hong Kong censors now have the power to ban movies 'endangering national security'.
Early estimates price this new Alzheimer's drug at nearly $60,000 annually, per patient.
Most Americans don't know where Grand Canyon or Niagara Falls are, new poll finds. From believing the Grand Canyon is in Colorado to thinking Niagara Falls is in Iceland, some Americans are a little confused about their national geography. However, as a new survey of 2,000 respondents reveals, they're also much more confident in their skills than they probably should be. Most Americans are confident in their own geographic abilities, but in a recent survey, that confidence might have been ignorance as most tend to get locations and things wrong.
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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