And another day of most Americans seeing the MAGA threat, DOJ appeals, Bannon charged, Republicans desperately trying to change their tune on abortion, CNN’s future, renaming places, and cancers in those under 50 comes to a close:
“Queen Elizabeth II reigned for more than a quarter of the time the United States has existed.” -- Mrs. Betty Bowers
Deaths
US: 1,074,787 (+616)
World: 6,512,279 (+3003)
Cases
US: 96,959,165 (+88,787)
World: 612,521,932 (+575,376)
Most Americans see Trump's MAGA as threat to democracy. Fifty-eight percent of respondents in the two-day poll - including one in four Republicans - said Trump's "Make America Great Again" movement is threatening America's democratic foundations. — It’s Americans vs. MAGA in November.
DOJ to appeal special master ruling, arguing classified documents aren't Trump's 'personal records'. The hundreds of pages of classified government records seized from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate last month aren't the former president's "personal records," and he has no right to possess them, the Justice Department said in a court filing Thursday as it said the government would appeal a judge's ruling on the matter...The department also asked for a partial stay of Cannon's ruling while the appeal is pending, saying that "the government and the public are irreparably injured when a criminal investigation of matters involving risks to national security is enjoined."
Support of false election claims runs deep in 2022 GOP field. Nearly 1 in 3 Republican candidates for statewide offices that play a role in overseeing, certifying or defending elections supported overturning the results of the 2020 presidential race, according to an Associated Press review. They include contenders from one end of the country to the other, often in pivotal swing states, for positions that are the linchpins of democracy.
Steve Bannon charged with money laundering, conspiracy in ‘We Build the Wall’ fundraising fraud case. Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon arrived in court in New York on Thursday to face fresh charges related to a charity that was supposed to use private funds to build the U.S.-Mexico border wall. Bannon, 68, was indicted on charges including money laundering, scheming to defraud and conspiracy, according to a court filing unsealed Thursday morning.
Republicans' failure to act over Jackson water crisis is down to race and class prejudice. Mississippi’s GOP lawmakers have for years diverted funding away from the majority Black city towards wealthy white communities elsewhere in the state.
Most Americans want maximum age limit for elected officials: poll. When asked if there should be an upper age restriction at which point lawmakers are forced to leave office, 73 percent of poll respondents agreed…Most of those polled (40 percent) said 70 would be an appropriate cut-off age. The other ages offered were age 50 (8 percent), age 60 (26 percent), age 80 (18 percent) and age 90 (2 percent). — There should also be term limits.
Republicans Are Desperately Trying to Change Their Tune on Abortion. The latest Pew polling shows that 62 percent of Americans think that abortion should be legal in all or most circumstances. Gallup polling from May found that 35 percent of Americans supported abortion under any circumstances, and 50 percent supported it only under certain circumstances. Last month’s referendum on abortion rights in Kansas is a strong indicator that restricting abortion access is a losing issue. Predictably, a handful of Republicans running for office are now walking back their anti-abortion stances. Here are a few. — Make every Republican pay for their arrogant patriarchal bullshit. Don’t let them gaslight you. They all wanted Roe overturned.
South Carolina senators reject a near-total abortion ban. South Carolina senators rejected a ban on almost all abortions Thursday in a special session called in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade after five Republicans, including all the chamber’s women, refused to support it. The 30 Republicans in the 46-member chamber had a majority to pass the ban, but did not have the extra votes to end a threatened filibuster by Republican Sen. Tom Davis.
Michigan Supreme Court rules abortion amendment should go to voters this November. It's up to the Michigan Board of State Canvassers Friday to decide in a final vote whether the measure should go before voters.
Abortion pill startup provides meds to women who aren't pregnant yet. The startup Choix (pronounced "Choice") on Wednesday announced that it will begin providing patients abortion pills before they are needed in states where the procedure is legal and the company is licensed to operate, including California, Colorado, Illinois, Maine and New Mexico.
“I Really Hope We Don’t Both-Sides Democracy”: Where is CNN Headed? The abrupt exits of Brian Stelter and John Harwood have unnerved staffers, who want clarity from newish CEO Chris Licht, and rattled viewers, who fear CNN is veering right. The network, however, vows to “stand up for democracy and call out lies.” “I really hope that we don’t both-sides democracy. I really hope that we don’t go back to false equivalence,” one of the staffers told me. “But I don’t think being a network that is maybe a bit more like the BBC, where our tone is a little less obnoxious and less emotional and more factual, is necessarily a bad thing.”
US changes names of nearly 650 places with racist Native American women term. Hundreds of peaks, lakes, streams, and other geographical features on federal lands that carry the term “squaw” are now renamed with a descriptor or Indigenous language terms, such as Echo Peak, Texas, and Pannaite Naokwaide, Wyoming. — To oppose this “wokeness,” or any “wokeness,” is to support racism.
Utah rep. told Mormon bishop not to report abuse, docs show. A Utah lawmaker and prominent attorney for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints advised a church bishop not to report a confession of child sex abuse to authorities, a decision that allowed the abuse to continue for years, according to records filed in a lawsuit. -- Leave the pews. Just get out of organized religion.
Cancers in adults below 50 have 'dramatically increased'. Researchers said breast, colon, esophagus, kidney, liver, and pancreas cancers among others have shown a drastic rise beginning in the 1990s. "From our data, we observed something called the birth cohort effect. This effect shows that each successive group of people born at a later time (e.g., decade-later) have a higher risk of developing cancer later in life, likely due to risk factors they were exposed to at a young age.”…According to Brigham and Women's Hospital's report, exposures from conception to when someone's 19 years old play a role in cancer diagnoses before a person turns 50. The study found that rising incidence is partially attributable to early screenings for some of these cancers, however, early life exposures such as people's diet, weight, lifestyle, environmental exposure, and microbiome may factor into what's contributing to early-onset cancer, but more information on individual exposures is needed, according to the report.
RIP Queen Elizabeth II. She was 96.
RIP Bernard Shaw. He was 82.
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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