Today's News (2020/7/4): Fascism Freefall and Police Violence edition

And this one's back up in count as Trump decides white supremacy is how to win re-election. Also, I'm making a last-minute call to combine the Police Violence and Fascism editions today, since Police Violence was only three articles for the moment and they're so inextricably linked right now.

1. Seattle Police either defying orders or lying about them, demanding ID from people trying to go home in Capitol Hill
2. At Mount Rushmore, Trump exploits social divisions, warns of ‘left-wing cultural revolution’ in dark speech ahead of Independence Day
3. US under siege from 'far-left fascism', says Trump in Mount Rushmore speech
4. As Neo-Nazis Seed Military Ranks, Germany Confronts 'an Enemy Within'
5. A National Guardsman Sent To LA Protests Is Under Investigation For Ties To Proud Boys
6. Police: 2 women hit by car on Seattle highway amid protest [EDITOR: While we don't know whether the driver was intentionally hitting them, we do know the driver swerved around parked cars set up as a barricade to do so, _and_ fled the scene. So.]
7. "Kill 'em." Houston GOP powerbroker Steve Hotze left Greg Abbott a voicemail requesting National Guard "shoot to kill" rioters
8. Seattle Police protecting white supremacist marchers in Seattle
9. ‘Perhaps the most un-American speech ever delivered by an American president’: Ambassador McFaul
10. Trump remains silent on Putin despite uproar over alleged Russian bounty payments
11. Proud Boys pepper-spraying counter-protesters on Capitol Hill, police do nothing
12. Judge issues order enjoining Portland police from arresting or committing physical abuse of journalists, legal observers
13. Court order, City Council law didn’t stop Seattle police from using pepper spray, projectiles
14. Cops ousted for bad behavior often land in one place: St. Ann

( The articles )

Today's News (2020/7/4): COVID-19 edition

We'd be in pretty good shape if it weren't for all the fucking Trumpists on the dry side. But they're there, so we're not.

1. Surge in state COVID-19 cases driven by eastern Washington
2. `Huge bummer': July Fourth will test Americans' discipline
3. 'We Need to Live With It': White House Readies New Message for the Nation on Coronavirus
4. Austin Hospital Withheld Treatment from Disabled Man Who Contracted Coronavirus
5. What's missing altogether from the Times story is any serious account of how debates over whether to return to campus are a consequence of a funding model for higher ed that is collapsing with terrifying speed.
6. Florida breaks coronavirus record with over 11K new cases reported in one day

( The articles )

Today's News (2020/7/4): Everything Else edition

I'm told by someone who is ex-military that this first article is a really big deal, and that these young officers are putting their entire careers on the line.

1. The highest-ranking West Point cadets for the Classes of 2018 and 2019 have jointly written a 40 pg. policy proposal with recommendations for making the Academy anti-racist.
2. Trump lies that Obama administration "destroyed" fishing and lobster catching in Maine; reality is that the peak for both were under Obama, and both are down under Trump.
3. Trump’s Mount Rushmore Fireworks Show: What Could Go Wrong?
4. Trump Believes That He Is Losing Because He Hasn’t Been Racist Enough
5. U.S. Is 'Out of Control' Under Trump, 75 Percent of Americans Think: Poll
6. The Unraveling of the U.S.-South Korean Alliance
7. Perkins: LGBTQ Rights Have Ruined The Fourth Of July
8. J.K. Rowling likes tweet that supports conversion therapy
9. South Dakota governor calls removal of Confederate statues effort to 'discredit' Founding Fathers

( The articles )