Today's News (2020/7/10): Fascism Faceoff edition

Whelp time to separate out fascism and police violence editions again.

1. ‘Absolute immunity:’ Kayleigh McEnany claims Trump has monarch-like powers despite Supreme Court ruling
2. Echoing rightist language, Trump calls voting a "privilege," as opposed to a right.
3. A whole administrative machine sprung into action to try to make the president's trivial wrongness appear right.
4. WATCH: Fox’s Dobbs Says Supreme Court “Infiltrated by Deep State”
5. The U.S. Army Twitch Channel Is Banning People for Asking About War Crimes
6. Trump news – live: President considers commuting Roger Stone's prison sentence as New Hampshire rally cancelled
7. ICE is starting a "Citizen's Academy" in Chicago to train people on "firearms familiarization" and "targeted arrests".
8. U.S. Broadcasting Agency Will Not Extend Visas For Its Foreign Journalists
9. Trump’s annual financial disclosure report was due to be released more than a week ago and is still not published. Trump was already given a 45-day extension.
10. GOP House Candidate Blames 2018 California Wildfires On “Ray Beams” During Appearance On #QAnon Show
11. Trump commutes longtime friend Roger Stone’s sentence
12. Doctors, teachers reject Trump's pressure to reopen U.S. schools as Trump calls schools, universities "Radical Left Indoctrination."

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Today's News (2020/7/10): Police Violence edition

This thread from the Seattle PD (see entry 13) is why we need to completely tear down law enforcement and start over.

1. SEATTLE: Seattle City Council pressed to defund police, move 911 response dispatchers out of department
2. SEATTLE: Seattle Police arrest photojournalist Brad Fox, who photographed them arresting a protestor for doing, apparently, nothing.
3. CHICAGO: The Chicago Police Department has shut down its Arrests API after reporters caught the PD lying about recent arrests.
4. CHICAGO: Chicago Police Department arrest API shutdown is its own kind of ‘cover up’
5. SEATTLE: Majority of Seattle council pledges to support Police Department defunding plan laid out by advocates
6. MINNEAPOLIS: MPD think they are in a zombie movie.
7. Police Punish the ‘Good Apples’
8. ‘This is a time bomb’—Leaked docs reveal homophobic, racist police instructors. “He flat out said in class that he lied all the time in court to cover his partner’s asses. He said multiple times a badge and being a cop means ‘you can do whatever the fuck you want.’”
9. TORONTO: Dana Larsen: Toronto cops barrage fellow officers with porn and abuse
10. SEATTLE: I was arrested, jailed and assaulted by a guard. My ‘crime’? Being a journalist in Trump’s America
11. BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA: Bloomington Police Department says the registration on the car who plowed through protests leads nowhere.
12. DAVENPORT, IOWA: Court: Officer who stomped on suspect’s ankle cannot be sued
13. SEATTLE: Seattle PD says budget cuts will "make" it go whites-mostly.
14. $23 million cited as Portland protest damages was mostly tied to coronavirus closures

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Today's News (2020/7/10): COVID-19 edition

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Eeeeeeverything is terrible.

1. Anthony Fauci: ‘We are living in the perfect storm’
2. Trump: no funding for schools that don't return to normal operations, COVID-19 be damned.
3. Fauci on Trump’s 99% harmless claim: “I’m trying to figure out where the president got that number. What I think happened is that someone told him that the general mortality is about 1%. And he interpreted, therefore, that 99% is not a problem, when that’s obviously not the case”
4. Texas’s Governor Abbott warning Texans all the COVID numbers are going to get worse before they get better, pleading with folks to wear masks to help avoid more shutdowns.
5. Inslee: Trump threats on reopening schools ‘hogwash’
6. Alabama GOP Leader Says He Wants More COVID-19 Cases In Order To Build ‘Immunity’
7. This is a public apology to everyone who has lost a loved one to #COVID19
8. Washington State Department of Health, June Update: Statewide High-Level Analysis of Forecasted Behavioral Health Impacts from COVID-19
9. Iowa governor says cities can't require masks
10. COVID hits more legislators amid rapid spread in Mississippi
11. Here's what will happen if they open schools
12. Touting criticized study, White House presses FDA to authorize hydroxychloroquine — again
13. Florida governor finally releases the true numbers of people hospitalized with coronavirus

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Today's News (2020/7/10): Everything Else edition

The last item - CNN is not fucking around when it's warning about racist, sexist, and homophobic language. Particularly racist.

1. Today in hot Gender Critical TERF takes: lesbians having equal parental rights is bad.
2. The latest in the GOP Civil War: Ann Coulter endorses Amy McGrath over Mitch McConnell because Mitch is opposing white suprematist MAGA candidates, and is therefore a RINO who needs to be purged.
3. Judge blocks Trump/Pence rule to make patients pay for their general coverage and abortion health insurance coverage separately.
4. AP: Catholic Church lobbied for taxpayer funds, got $1.4B
5. Pandemic, China Trade Deal Fuel Farmer Doubts
6. I’m leaving Sleeping Giants, but not because I want to
7. Supreme Court rules Trump will have to fight to keep secret his taxes, financial records
8. Vox writer Emily VanDerWerff targeted for massive harassment by supporters of Harper's letter, spurred on by anti-trans activist Jesse Singal
9. Sady Doyle calls out Jesse Singal's years of abusive behaviour
10. Tucker Carlson's top writer resigns after secretly posting racist and sexist remarks in online forum

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