Today's News (2020/7/13): Fascism Flagrant edition

In a hurry, no time to be pithy.

1. How Cancel Culture really works
2. Trump threatens to "take over cities."
3. It’s the duty of the White House press secretary to hold briefings. But not like this.
4. Trump flunky Lindsay Graham has announced Mueller will be testifying in his committee.
5. Last week Attorney General Bill Barr described Roger Stone’s sentence as “fair”. Just now he had no comment on the President’s decision to commute Stone.
6. The protests in Portland are ongoing and the police and feds have been violent, as Trump takes credit for having "quelled" Portland.
7. Mary Trump’s Book Shows How Donald Trump Gets Away With It
8. Washington state AG Bob Ferguson files for restraining order to halt plan to revoke international student visas

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Today's News (2020/7/13): COVID-19 Edition

1. My patient caught Covid-19 twice. So long to herd immunity hopes.
2. Covid-19 Immunity May Rely on a Microscopic Helper: T Cells
3. Trump again says that testing for COVID-19 "creates cases" of COVID-19.
4. White House denies attempt to discredit Fauci, while giving what looks like an "oppo dump" - a set of documents designed to discredit a political opponent - to reporters.
5. White House seeks to discredit Fauci in memo leaked to reporters
6. As reopening plan that calls for face coverings, school board members express resistance
7. Anti-Mask Idiots Rally at Florida Restaurant as State Becomes Covid-19 Epicenter
8. Mike Pence directly intervened to push CO health agency to weaken their standards, allow #covid19 exposed employees to go back to work at meatpacking plant. Six workers died as a result.
9. Immunity to Covid-19 could be lost in months, UK study suggests [EDITOR: _If_ the main immunoresponse is antibodies, which isn't necessarily true.]
10. ‘We’re just overwhelmed’: The view from inside California hospitals as COVID-19 surges
11. White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications and Director of Social Media attacks Fauci on Facebook

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Today's News (2020/7/13): Everything Else edition

Short, but important, particularly the first one IMO.

1. The new Postmaster General is actively working to destroy the product, service, and integrity of the USPS.
2. New International Students To U.S. May Hit Post-WW2 Low
3. Washington’s NFL team drops ‘Redskins’ name after 87 years
4. "This series of misleading infographics is way over the line."
5. Gov. Bill Lee signs controversial Tennessee abortion restriction measure into law

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