Today's News (2020/4/13): The Western States Pact Edition

Today got exciting. But don't ignore the other stories, particularly where Pompeo tells fundamentalists how they're going to do something about all human rights that aren't actually human rights, complaining explicitly about "things that we all know as Christian believers aren’t part of the inherent dignity of a human being became rights," which is the rhetoric they've long used to say "queer rights aren't rights," because same-sex relationships damage the inherent dignity of human beings. No, seriously, they spent decades on that.

They'll also be going after women's health care, and not just abortion, but also any kind of family planning and birth control. Probably that more loudly, in fact.

Also note Barr basically saying "never investigate the president again." That's not an idle threat.

1. Market And Business Ties Often Determine Where COVID-19 Supplies Go
2. Trump claims he, not governors, has authority on opening state economies
3. Washington, Oregon and California to coordinate reopening of West Coast economies after coronavirus is contained
4. Washington, Oregon and California announce Western States Pact
5. R.I. will join N.Y., N.J., three other states to create regional plan for restoring economy without spreading coronavirus [EDITOR: Initially called the Six State Council]
6. Massachusetts Joins New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Rhode Island's Multi-State Council to Get People Back to Work and Restore the Economy [EDITOR: Now being called The Multi-State Council]
7. Trump lashes out in grievance-filled briefing claiming 'total' authority as president
8. She would not let up even in the face of President Trump's attacks
9. "You said when someone is president of the United States their authority is total. That is not true. Who told you that?"
10. Fact check: Trump claims it's his call on when to 'reopen' the country. He's wrong.
11. Trump claims 'total authority' over state decisions
12. The Wisconsin GOP scored an own goal in last Tuesday's voter suppression efforts.
13. Both judges appointed by former Gov. Scott Walker -- Judge Paul Dedinsky and Judge Dan Gabler -- lose by at least 20 percentage points.
14. Barr sends a message: Don’t ever investigate the president again
15. The New York City bar goes after William Barr
16. Virginia pastor who defiantly held church service dies of coronavirus
17. Mike Pompeo Says Unalienable Rights Commission Will Return Human Rights Policy to ‘Judeo-Christian Tradition on Which this Country Was Founded’

( The articles (not of Confederation) )

Today's News (2020/4/14): "wut" edition

THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED.

So the latest attempt to divert blame is to blame the World Health Organisation for literally everything, and cut off funding. That's 14% of their budget, which is a fucking lot to lose during a fucking pandemic.

Also, they're getting back on the "lives should be sacrificed" for the stock markets.

This entire administration and party is made up of psychopaths. Understand that. Never forget it.

PS: I'm including a story on the "mutiny" comments earlier in the day, but yesterday's absolute-power rampage has been being walked back all day, and in today's... press briefing, if you want to call it back... it got walked back even further. So.

And this is the MAGAt 'god emperor,' the player of 'twelve dimensional chess.'

Christ, MAGAts are the absolute dumbestass motherfuckers the US has to offer, aren't they?

1. NYC publishes, for first time, data on fatalities that includes "probable" cases
2. GOP lawmaker: We must choose 'loss of American lives' over 'loss of our way of life as Americans'
3. Democratic National Committee statement on Pres Trump Halting WHO Funding
4. GOP senators target WHO as part of coronavirus probe
5. CIA issues warning on unproven treatment touted by Trump
6. South Dakota’s governor resisted ordering people to stay home. Now it has one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hot spots.
7. Group of pastors sue California officials for 'criminalizing' church attendance
8. Barr says government 'may not impose special restrictions' on religious gatherings
9. Laura Ingraham thinks "Americans should be furious"
10. Student files class-action lawsuit against Liberty University over coronavirus response
11. AG Barr just signaled that things are about to get ugly for the Russia collusion team
12. "wut" [Today's 'press briefing' with Donkeyballs Donald]
13. Trump casts interstate coronavirus pact as ‘mutiny
14. Trump had plenty of opportunities to pressure Xi to allow US CDC officials in, to demand data, virus samples, etc.Instead, he praised Xi, over and over.

( The articles )

what the absolute literal fuck

so
okay
little fruck out here but
STORYTIME

i wear disposable contact lenses because i don't have depth perception with glasses and also my eyes are very different to each other due to reasons

and my right eye gets very little correction but i do kinda need it for best vision? (in a shitty range of "best" but bear with me)

so i put a new lens in and it was like "this seems WAY too much, like, twice as much, what the fuck?" so I took it out and inverted it and put it in to soak for a couple of days because I figured I'd put it in inverted or something? or it shipped that way? so i wanted to give it a couple of days to figure out it got flipped back

and i just got it out again

and it did this THING where it felt like it was coming apart And It Was BecUsE THERE WERE TWO OF THEM

THERE WERE TWO IN THE SAME FUCKING PACK

AND I'D WORN BOTH AT THE SAME TIME FOR LIKE THREE DAYS WITHOUT KNOWING

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

anyway I put one of them in now and my eyes are back to normal

but wHaT ThE fuCK

i mean arguably it's kind of a bargain because hey, free lens, right?

IN THE WORST POSSIBLE WAY

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