And another day of classified documents, soft landings, recount confirmations, switching from R to D, Fauci resigning, calls for placing LGBTQ+ kids in separate classrooms, dancing in Finland, police beating a man, and the secret world of trading nudes comes to a close:
"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." — Thomas Paine
Deaths
US: 1,066,082
World: 6,473,780
Cases
US: 95,449,606
World: 601,561,186
Trump held more than 300 classified documents since leaving White House: report. Former President Trump reportedly held onto more than 300 classified documents since he left office, half of which were recovered in January by the National Archives, which alerted the Justice Department in what eventually led up to the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago property.
Trump seeks special master to review Mar-a-Lago documents. The request was included in a federal lawsuit, the first filing by Trump’s legal team in the two weeks since the search, that takes broad aim at the FBI investigation into the discovery of classified records at Mar-a-Lago and that foreshadows arguments his lawyers are expected to make as the probe proceeds.
The CDC has guided the U.S. COVID epidemic to a soft landing—a manufactured conclusion that flies in the face of science, some experts say.
3 more states are poised to enact abortion trigger bans this week. By the end of August, nearly all of the abortion trigger bans in the country will have taken effect. Thirteen states have legislation that was designed to automatically outlaw abortions once the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Kansas recount confirms results in favor of abortion rights. A decisive statewide vote in favor of abortion rights in traditionally conservative Kansas was confirmed with a partial hand recount, with fewer than 100 votes changing after the last county reported results Sunday.
Colorado GOP senator becomes Democrat, cites vote falsehoods. “I cannot continue to be part of a political party that is okay with a violent attempt to overturn a free and fair election and continues to peddle claims that the 2020 election was stolen,” Priola said.
Fauci to step down after decades as top US infection expert. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert who became a household name — and the subject of partisan attacks — during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Monday he will leave the federal government in December after more than five decades.
The anti-LGBTQ+ lobby group Moms for Liberty has called for LGBTQ+ kids to be placed in separate classrooms “like children with autism or Down’s syndrome”. The comments are especially disturbing as Moms for Liberty is not just a group of angry, anti-LGBTQ+ parents – it is beginning to have political power. Moms for Liberty’s Florida chapters have worked with state governor Ron DeSantis in pushing his reviled ‘Don’t Say Gay’ legislation, which bans the mention of LGBTQ+ identities in schools. The nationwide group is infamous for relentlessly fighting to remove books with LGBTQ+ themes from schools and libraries, and last year even offered a $500 bounty if its followers turned in teachers discussing “divisive” topics in New Hampshire.
Why women are dancing in solidarity with Finland's prime minister. People posting pictures and videos of themselves partying online has become a political statement for some women. In social media feeds, women are showing themselves dancing, singing or holding a drink to show their solidarity with Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin. She has been under public scrutiny after videos of her dancing and singing with friends circulated on the internet. Those videos were meant to be private, according to Marin. — Such misogynistic, patriarchal bullshit. People have lives. She wasn’t hurting anyone. She was dancing and singing.
Study: Already shrunk by half, Swiss glaciers melting faster. A new study has found that Switzerland’s 1,400 glaciers lost half their total volume since the early 1930s, and researchers say the ice retreat is accelerating at a time of growing concerns about climate change.
3 Arkansas officers suspended after video captures beating. Federal authorities said Monday they have started a civil rights investigation following the suspension of three Arkansas law enforcement officers after a video posted on social media showed two of them beating a man while a third officer held him on the ground.
Inside the secret world of trading nudes. There were thousands of photographs. A seemingly endless stream of naked or partially dressed women. Underneath, men were posting vicious commentary about the women, including rape threats. Much of what I saw was too explicit to share here…What I found was a marketplace. Hundreds of anonymous profiles were dedicated to sharing, trading and selling explicit images - and it all appeared to be without the permission of the women pictured…Not only were these intimate images being shared for an audience of thousands, but men - lurking behind the mask of anonymity - were teaming up to expose the real-life identities of these women, a practice known as doxing. Addresses, phone numbers and social media handles were being swapped online - the women then being targeted with lurid sexual comments, threats and blackmail. It felt like I had stumbled into a very dark corner of the internet, but this was all happening on a major social media platform. — Be careful out there.
Ukraine soccer league defies Russian war to begin season. Under threat of Russian attacks in a war that stopped all soccer in Ukraine in February, a new league season starts Tuesday in Kyiv with the goal of restoring some sense of normal life.
Heavy rain floods streets across Dallas-Fort Worth area. The official National Weather Service record station at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport reported 9.19 inches (23 centimeters) of rain in the 24 hours ending at 2 p.m. Monday. That ranked second for the top 10 most rain over 24 hours in Dallas on record. The most was 9.57 inches (24.3 centimeters) that fell Sept. 4-5, 1932.
Disability rights groups battle Lyft for wheelchair accessible vehicles — again. Lyft officials said the company is exempt from the Americans with Disabilities Act and doesn’t have to cater to people with nonfolding wheelchairs.
Dogs' eyes well up with tears of joy when reunited with their owners. A wagging tail, a loving lick, a playful jump, a heart-melting gaze. You know when your dog is happy to see you. Now, new research from Japanese scientists suggests that a dog's eyes may well up with tears of happiness when reunited with their owner after a period of absence. The tears may help cement the bond between human and dog -- a relationship that goes back tens of thousands of years. Like humans, dogs have tear ducts that well up with tears to keep their eyes clean and healthy. But tears in dogs, which tend not to fall as they do when humans cry, hadn't been linked with emotion before.
Even scientists didn't expect Webb telescope images of Jupiter to be this good. Rainbow auroras, giant storms and far-off galaxies are all on display in the latest images of Jupiter from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. "We hadn't really expected it to be this good, to be honest," said planetary astronomer Imke de Pater, professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, in a news release.
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