Today's News (2020/7/15): Fascism edition

I see we're bringing back in the literal original Nazis at this point.

1. Trump announces he will appoint Sebastian Gorka to National Security Education Board.
2. Trump administration rescinds rule on foreign students
3. Trump using the Rose Garden to give a campaign speech assailing Biden is definitely illegal
4. South Dakota Is Sharing Driver's License Info To Help Find Out Who's A Citizen [EDITOR: As are some other states]
5. Fact check: Trump makes at least 19 false or misleading claims in wild anti-Biden monologue
6. QAnon Devotees Plan Rally At Republican National Convention
7. Robert Maginnis Ranks Barack Obama, George Soros Among ‘Satan’s Greatest Human Proxies’
8. The CDC will "no longer control" the coronavirus data collection system from hospitals across the nation, a spokesman for U.S. Health and Human Services says.
9. The Violent Politics Behind Karenism
10. Fox Guest: Teachers Unions Are Grooming Kids For Sex Predators, Training Them In “Anti-American Ideology”
11. On Navarro: "Not only was he authorized by Trump, he was encouraged"
12. Here's a thread on some of the many ways Trump falsely described the proposals from the Biden-Sanders unity task forces.

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Today's News (2020/7/15): Police Violence edition

The current end of Greg Doucette's massive thread tracking police violence.

1. U.S. Marshals probing protester’s shooting by federal officer in Portland, mayor says
2. Off-duty officer who drove car through protest crowd ‘no longer employed’ by Seattle police
3. Cop who threatened to kill protesters shoots, kills colleague who knocked on door, affidavit says
4. MINNEAPOLIS: The Police Have Been Spying on Black Reporters and Activists for Years. I Know Because I’m One of Them.
5. Police partially blinded eight people on the same day of protests after George Floyd's death
6. Leaked Documents Show Police Knew Far-Right Extremists Were the Real Threat at Protests, not “Antifa”

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Today's News (2020/7/15): COVID-19 edition

Lots and lots today. Lots and lots and lots.

1. Hate Group To Sue CA Gov Over New Lockdown Order
2. The Food-Processing Industry Is the Typhoid Mary of This Pandemic
3. [Orange County, California] School Board Votes To Allow In-Person Instruction This Fall Without Masks, Social Distancing
4. The Trump administration has ordered hospitals to bypass the CDC
5. ‘Deep State’ Hawk Tom Fitton’s Latest Target: The ‘Medical Media Establishment’
6. White House takes aim at Fauci but Trump has no current plans to fire him, source says
7. 41 states are seeing a percentage increase in cases over the last 14 days, and 8 states are seeing a spike of more than 100% in that time period.
8. Trump continues to lie, say COVID-19 cases are spiking due to increased testing.
9. Trump is trying to do to Anthony Fauci what the right did to Al Gore — but it's not working
10. If you aren’t filled with rage at Trump, you aren’t paying attention
11. The party of grotesque selfishness
12. Inslee pauses reopening of Washington counties through July 28 as COVID-19 cases spike
13. Kentucky Bar Defies Mask Order: 'We Are Americans—We're Going to Do What We Want'
14. Access to public health official’s emails will cost at least $8,000
15. America’s Jobless Are About to Lose Their $600-a-Week Lifeline
16. Limbaugh: Americans should “adapt” to coronavirus, like pioneers who “had to turn to cannibalism”
17. GOP Senator Says They 'Can Kiss My A**' as Teachers, Unions Oppose School Reopenings Over COVID Concerns
18. Public's disconnect from COVID-19 reality worries experts
19. If coronavirus transmission levels don’t decrease, King County school buildings should not reopen in fall, report says
20. Fauci calls White House attempts to discredit him 'bizarre'

( The articles )