Today's News (2020/5/17): Trumpian sabotage and other adventures in Covid-19 edition

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Most of this is sabotage, including yet another shutdown by the Feds of Cascadian testing - in this case specifically testing Bill Gates is paying to have done as part of his massive work against the pandemic, and the Feds shipping us unusable supplies. (As always, Cascadia Now.) But there's lots of other fun stuff, like Eric Trump saying the whole pandemic is bullshit made up by Democrats to keep his father from holding rallies. Shit like that.

1. ‘Selfish and Gross’: Illinois Natives Plot Bar Sprees in Wisconsin
2. Eric Trump tells FOX that COVID-19 is invented by Democrats and will all vanish overnight the day after the election, presumably like so many ginned-up Republican investigations of Clinton and Obama.
3. Fed shipment of Q-tip-style coronavirus swabs puzzles Washington state officials, latest wrinkle in supply woes
4. False health claims circulate about wearing masks during pandemic
5. JetBlue’s Founder Helped Fund A Stanford Study That Said The Coronavirus Wasn’t That Deadly
6. A noose, an ax and Trump-inspired insults: Anti-lockdown protesters ratchet up violent rhetoric
7. FDA halts Bill Gates coronavirus testing program [EDITOR'S NOTE: See also the Federal history, documented here and elsewhere, about stopping Cascadian efforts to do widespread testing and alert others. This is intentional sabotage.]
8. Record number of COVID-19 cases reported Saturday in Wisconsin, with 502 infections
9. Amid reports of White House clashes with CDC, experts raise alarms about lack of coronavirus screening at airports
10. House Republican introduces bill to give meatpacking plants liability shield
11. Sweden’s Relaxed Approach to COVID-19 Isn’t Working
12. Alaska legislator compares pandemic safety measures at Capitol to Nazi treatment of Jews [EDITOR: Amazingly, it's even worse than this headline implies]

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Today's News (2020/5/17): It's a Cult, no, not that one, a different one edition

There's a bit of "everything else" to this post.

1. Hackers Claim to Have Dirt That Could End Trump’s Campaign. After All We Know, What the Hell Could That Be?
2. Opinion Why Mike Pompeo Is an Immediate Threat to the Middle East
3. Russia is interfering in our elections again. And Trump supporters are emulating Russian tactics.
4. The ‘gender critical’ feminist movement is a cult that grooms, controls and abuses, according to a lesbian who managed to escape

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