Today's News (2020/7/1): Fascism Flatulant edition

Been a little overwhelmed the last couple of days.

1. Senate strips provision from intelligence bill requiring campaigns to report foreign election help
2. [IN ABOUT FUCKING TIME NEWS] Journalists are reexamining their reliance on a longtime source: The police
3. Intercepted bank transfers show Russia poured money into Taliban-linked accounts after bounties revealed
4. The WH says the President wasn’t briefed because the intelligence wasn’t "verified," but...
5. AP sources: White House aware of Russian bounties in 2019
6. Manhattan prosecutor pick ducks questions about Barr's job offer
7. The Immigration System Is Set To Come To A Near Halt, And No One Is Paying Attention
8. The Voting Disaster Ahead
9. By Wednesday, Trump was calling the words 'black lives matter' a 'symbol of hate.'
10. An estimated 500 Nazis, neo-Confederates, and Trumpists swarmed a small "defund the police" rally of 50 protestors in Boise, Idaho
11. 'The president is a danger'

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Today's News (2020/7/1): Police Violence edition

Greg Doucette's twitter collection of police violence is up to 700 incidents as of tonight. Here's the latest tweet, which is an update on case 699.

1. Police in riot gear confront peaceful violin vigil for Elijah McClain with pepper spray
2. Aurora, Colorado PD officers photograph themselves mocking Elijah McClain's death at the memorial, share photographs around
3. Seattle PD not wearing masks, despite Governor Inslee's order
4. Seattle police clear CHOP protest zone

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Today's News (2020/7/1): COVID-19 edition

The only good thing I can say about our local numbers is that while our case counts have gone way up, so has our testing, and the positivity rate of tests has gone down as testing has expanded.

That's legitimately good. The rest is a disaster. Like how we're still getting defective supplies from the Feds, because of course we are.

1. ‘Our luck may have run out’: California’s case count explodes
2. CDC says U.S. has ‘way too much virus’ to control pandemic as cases surge across country
3. Protests don’t appear to be driving coronavirus surge in Seattle area or elsewhere, researchers say
4. A National Mask Mandate Could Save The U.S. Economy $1 Trillion, Goldman Sachs Says
5. Inslee heckled off stage during Tri-Cities appearance [by Trumpist COVID-19 deniers demanding measures to control the virus be stopped]
6. Christian Activist Scott Lively: I’d Rather Be Beheaded Than Wear A Mask
7. Tucker Carlson’s Journey From Coronavirus Alarm-Puller to COVID Truther
8. Coronavirus testing supplies from the Trump administration are arriving unlabeled or poorly packaged, state health secretary says
9. Gov. DeSantis on COVID-19 reopening: ‘We’re not going back’
10. Trump told us the pandemic which has now killed more than 126,000 Americans was a hoax made up by his enemies to discredit him.
11. "The President's confident it will disappear."

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Today's News (2020/7/1): Everything Else edition

Getting in all the beatdowns on queers while they can.

1. Trump Signs Anti-LGBTQ Child Welfare Executive Order
2. Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws or oaths remained on the bench
3. Coronavirus Brings American Decline Out in the Open
4. Trump administration wants to end another Obama-era protection for transgender people
5. LGB Alliance have been emailing the Stonewall100 Charities to tell them NOT to support Stonewall UK
6. Department of Homeland Security says it's sending rapid deployment teams across the country to protect statues and monuments

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Today's News (2020/7/2): Fascism Fourcount

I kind of feel like I should merge the Police Violence into the Fascism edition since they're both necessary for each other.

1. Germany Disbands Elite Military Unit Following Reports Of Right Wing Extremism
2. Supreme Court will hear Democrats’ bid to get full Mueller report
3. Selah city attorney warns family they could be prosecuted for creating more chalk art
4. Joint Chiefs Chairman Confirms Soldiers Were Issued Bayonets For DC Protests

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Today's News (2020/7/2): Police Violence edition

Once upon a time, I had some faith in the idea of police reform. The last several weeks have shattered that faith completely. I no longer have any such faith whatever. None. ACAB: burn it all down.

Greg Doucette's police violence thread currently ends here.

1. More arrests overnight on Capitol Hill as new battle lines form between protesters and police
2. Seattle Police Department and protesters clash overnight at CHOP zone; more arrested
3. Oregon State Police don’t wear coronavirus masks while patronizing coffee shop, despite governor’s order
4. Court order, City Council law didn’t stop Seattle police from using pepper spray, projectiles
5. Cops attack peaceful protestors at Broadway and Pine. 5:30pm July 2nd.

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Today's News (2020/7/2): COVID-19 edition

I fucking hate living in a failed state.

I don't mean Washington State; we're in a bad position, but frankly we wouldn't be if we didn't have the Federal government and its ruling party sabotaging us continually.

And while our case count is spiking upwards because of that, there's one hidden piece of very good news: positivity rate in testing continues to go down. That's what you want to see when you finally manage to get testing expanded enough. Yesterday's horrible count had a positivity rate down to 5.4%. That kind of thing is why our long-term positive rate keeps falling.

It's hard to see, but that's actually pretty good news.

1. Arizona GOP Rep. Calls For WH Coronavirus Task Force To Be Disbanded
2. University System of Georgia is planning to put students in classrooms in 6 weeks without masks (and will forbid requiring them) as COVID-19 cases climb exponentially in the state
3. Fact check: In jobs speech, Trump does more dishonest downplaying of the pandemic
4. “I would say that... If you want to see August 1st, then maybe you should stay indoors and isolate on July 4th.”
5. Anthony Fauci Issues a New Coronavirus Plea
6. Why coronavirus cases in California are suddenly surging
7. Tuscaloosa students held parties, bet on who got coronavirus first
8. For Black Americans, Wearing A Mask Comes With Complicated Anxieties
9. Seattle, WA: police are back to using pepper spray, two weeks after the Seattle City Council voted 9-0 to ban the use of pepper spray
10. Gov. Inslee will require Washington businesses to turn away customers without coronavirus facial coverings
11. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) wants to disband the White House coronavirus task force for going against Trump's message.
12. POTUS plans a large event Friday at Mt. Rushmore, where masks will be optional.
13. USDA Uses Faulty Data to Approve Speeding Up Meatpacking Lines
14. Do Americans Understand How Badly They’re Doing?

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Today's News (2020/7/2): Everything Else edition

Here's how big a collection of fuckheaded insanity the GOP have become:

The latest QAnon freak winning a GOP nomination for Congress primaried a sitting representative and won.

You can't have a democratic country like this. You literally just can't.

1. During the Summer Family Bible Conference at Andrew Wommack's Charis Bible College yesterday, speaker Wendell Parr declared that Nancy Pelosi is demon-possessed.
2. Fact-checking Trump's references to the anti-police chant 'pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon'
3. Lawsuit accuses GOP gubernatorial candidate Loren Culp of mishandling child sex-abuse investigation
4. White evangelical approval of Trump slips, but eight-in-ten say they would vote for him
5. 'Liberate Hong Kong' slogan banned as protesters lie low
6. GOP candidate is latest linked to QAnon conspiracy theory
7. He Built a Privately Funded Border Wall. It’s Already at Risk of Falling Down if Not Fixed.
8. Mary Trump’s Publisher Wins Order Unblocking Her Memoir

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