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Friday, September 18, 2020

The White House blocked the US Postal Service from sending face masks to every US household in April

The White House blocked the US Postal Service from sending face masks to every US household in April

The White House scrapped a plan by the US Postal Service to send every American household a face mask in April, The Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing documents obtained through public-records requests.

Imagine how many lives would have been saved if the Post Office delivered those masks.

BTW, is Dr. Birx locked up in a tower somewhere? And couldn't she use one of her scarves to escape? - Jeremy Newberger

The World Is A Safer Place Without ~~Saddam~~ Trump

When I was a 16 year old waitress & regularly used to serve Van Morrison (rudest man on the planet) I learnt the valuable life lesson that a person can be a genius, and also an idiot. - Kate Nicholl

Anti-abortion Trump supporters who won’t wear masks are in the grand Republican tradition of being pro-life and pro-death at the same time. - Andy Borowitz

Judge Orders Post Office To Return To Normal Operations

A federal court in Washington State issued an injunction against recent changes at the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) late Thursday.

Chief U.S. District Judge Stanley A. Bastian, a Barack Obama appointee, determined that President Donald Trump and U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy were “involved in a politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the Postal Service” in an oral bench ruling.

Who are you going to believe, a hundred ex-White House staffers or a dozen current ones that are trying to stay out of jail? - Schooley

Republican Shenanigans

White House Task Force Finds No Evidence of White Privilege In U.S. - Andy Borowitz

So, Trump's Base Isn't Donating Money To Him?

Republican Party megadonors are racing to bail out President Donald Trump’s cash-strapped reelection campaign, with a newly formed super PAC pouring a further $25 million into battleground states.

Preserve America is set to begin running a trio of TV commercials savaging Democrat Joe Biden as Republicans express growing alarm over the president’s absence from the airwaves. Trump — who went dark for part of August and has since cancelled advertising in key states — is being outspent more than 2-to-1 by Biden this week, according to the media tracking firm Advertising Analytics.

Barr Says Wearing Mask Interferes With Sucking Ass. - Andy Borowitz

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Rock The Voter News

Only 19 days until Kamala Harris prosecutes Mike Pence on debate stage. - Daniel Uhlfelder

Water, Water, Everywhere, But Don't Drink It!

Amid a global pandemic and protests against police brutality, Erin Brockovich is trying to get America to pay attention to yet another issue: water.

"We are in a water crisis beyond anything you can imagine. Pollution and toxins are everywhere, stemming from the hazardous wastes of industry and agriculture. We’ve got more than 40,000 chemicals on the market today with only a few hundred regulated. We’ve had industrial byproducts discarded into the ground and into our water supply for years.

Funny how these Republicans want to compare things to slavery, but don’t want folks to actually learn the history of it.. - Maya Harris

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Business/Tech News

Who thinks trump's people been doing illegal things to pump up the stock market? - Thomas Kaine

Trump Bans TikTok & WeChat
The Trump administration announced that it will ban TikTok and WeChat from US app stores starting Sunday, a significant escalation against the two Chinese-owned apps that have massive user bases.

Wow. They’re actually going to ban TikTok. Then in the same breath yell at you about the importance of free speech. - Elle DeSylva

Accidentally closed a browser with 20+ tabs opened . . . this must be what the scholars of Alexandria felt when their great library burned. - Caulimovirus tweet

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Stay Safe Everyone and have a great weekend!

Time To Deflate Photo

Amazing photo of the Tawny Frogmouth. Because Australia refuses to have any normal animals, owls included.

Peace.

Thursday, September 17, 2020

CDC director contradicts Trump on vaccine timeline and face masks

CDC director contradicts Trump on vaccine timeline and face masks

CDC director Robert Redfield contradicted President Trump during sworn testimony Wednesday. Redfield said face masks are an effective tool...

CDC Director Says He Enjoyed Briefly Possessing Testicles. - Andy Borowitz

CNN is not holding back

The World Is A Safer Place Without ~~Saddam~~ Trump

Dwight Eisenhower on the Holocaust “Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Trump's Mind Is Deteriorating, As If We Didn't Know.

Tony Schwartz, the co-author of The Art of the Deal, said on CNN Wednesday he hasn’t seen Trump “more out of touch with reality than he is today.”

Schwartz spoke with Brianna Keilar about Bob Woodward’s book, as well as the Rage author’s takeaway that the president doesn’t seem to know what’s real and what’s unreal.

America is suffering fires, floods and plague. If this had happened under Obama, the fundamentalists and righties would be screaming END TIMES! - Stephen King

Republican Shenanigans

I admit it makes me nervous when talking heads say science is on the ballot. Science would probably lose to superstition handily in this country most days. - Michael Tomasky

Attorney General William Barr Says Freedom Outweighs Protecting Americans During A Pandemic

Attorney General William Barr lashed out at governors in both parties who closed nonessential businesses and ordered residents to stay home to stem the spread of coronavirus.

"You know, putting a national lockdown, stay at home orders, is like house arrest. Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history," he claimed.

As someone who spent four years in U.S. internment camps during World War II, I think Bill Barr is full of horse manure. - George Takei

Is it just me, or did Nixon do a hell of a lot less than Trump at this point? - Chip Franklin

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Four years ago the press and the right erupted over the *appearance* of a possible conflict when Lynch met with Clinton, arguing improper political influence on prosecutions. Now the Barr/Trumpist position is: political influence on prosecutions is great and we need more of it. - Adam Serwer

Rock The Voter News

After 175 years of staying neutral in elections, Scientific American has endorsed Joe Biden. Good thing Trump has practice getting spanked by a magazine. - Stephen Colbert

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Business/Tech News

Half the country is flooded, the other half is on fire, the unemployment rate is over 8%, the deficit is at $3,000,000,000,000, National Debt is $27,000,000,000,000 and the air has been poisoned, but we are good... The Dow Jones is at 28,000 points! - Levi Allen

The 7 Hour Flight To Nowhere Is Also Known As "Sightseeing"

But as travel bans, closed borders and shelter-in-place orders confined many to our homes, some travelers have been daydreaming not only about the far-flung destinations currently off limits, but the flying experience itself -- from the thrill of the take-off to the unmatched views of the earth from above from the cabin window.

That's where "flights to nowhere" come in -- air travel that takes place purely for the purpose of the journey, not the destination.

Australian airline Qantas recently announced plans for a seven-hour scenic flight that will perform a giant loop taking in Queensland and the Gold Coast, New South Wales and the country's remote outback heartlands.

Really tough year for people without a dark sense of humor. - Samantha Ruddy

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Odd News

Time To Deflate Photo

Walking between the rolling clay hills at Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, you can stumble onto a scene that looks like a lumberjack went mad. But this wasn't the work of an axe or saw. Over 200 million years ago, fallen trees washed into an ancient river system and were buried quickly enough that oxygen was cut off and decay slowed. Minerals, absorbed into the porous wood over thousands of years, crystallized and replaced the organic material forming what we call petrified wood. The crystals are hard and brittle, fracturing easily when subjected to stress. Over time, the still buried petrified trees broke like glass rods -- giving the appearance today of logs cut with a chainsaw. Photo by Jacob Holgerson, National Park Service. Caption: National Park Service

Peace.

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

White House Staff Members Reportedly Test Positive For COVID Less Than 48 Hours After President Donald Trump Visited Sacramento

White House Staff Members Reportedly Test Positive For COVID Less Than 48 Hours After President Donald Trump Visited Sacramento

Less than 48 hours after President Trump visited Sacramento, multiple White House staff members reportedly tested positive for COVID-19.

The White House press pool was informed of the positive COVID-19 cases Wednesday, but Chief of Staff Mark Meadows says he is not releasing any further information.

Last night the president of the United States said his plan to combat the virus was “herd mentality.” If you assume he meant herd immunity, then we’re talking millions dead. Why didn’t this dominate the WH briefing? ' Adam Parkhomenko tweet

The World Is A Safer Place Without ~~Saddam~~ Trump

If Trump had fully used the Defense Production Act in March we could all have home Covid testing kits now- think about how that would have saved lives and helped the economy to reopen safely. #HerdMentality - Dean Obeidallah tweet

Anyone Taking Bets That The CDC Director Will "Resign" Soon?
Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, told members of the Senate that face masks are more guaranteed to protect the public than a Covid-19 vaccine during an appeal for Americans to wear masks.

If ICE were accused of performing force vasectomies every Trump supporter’s head would explode into a million swastikas. - OhNoSheTwitnt

Republican Shenanigans

Have “pro-life” Republicans expressed outrage and demanded an investigation yet into reports of immigrant women being forced to have their uteruses removed from their bodies? - Maya Harris

Anyone Taking Bets That Trump Won't Attend Anymore Town Halls?
President Donald Trump faced life outside his own political bubble on Tuesday, where his self-congratulation, buck passing and audacious falsehoods conspicuously failed to meet the moment when he was confronted by undecided voters.

Shocked Americans Never Thought They’d See Forced Sterilization Of Minorities Happen Here Again And Again And Again - The Onion

Hell yes Madam Speaker on Morning Joe:. Joe asked her about why can’t they get a deal, her response was, “Why aren’t people in the media asking Republicans why they refuse to negotiate for the American people? You always put it on Democrats and we have come down 1 trillion.”

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A fun game to play: Is This an Email from a Nigerian Prince or from the Trump Campaign? - Sarah Cooper

Rock The Voter News

I need Botox right here.

Jared Kushner Is A Slumlord? Oh My.
A group of tenants on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Kushner Companies over claims of “unlawful and dangerous construction” at four New York City apartment buildings.
Six tenants of “Kushner Village” in Manhattan are arguing that in the construction of a new floor and penthouse apartments in 2015, Kushner Companies “circumvented fire safety and other protections required...

Someone has to say it. Kushner clearly uses more Botox than every Hollywood actress combined. - Meanwhile In Canada tweet

Lindsey Graham said abortion should be banned, as it's not mentioned in the Constitution. I checked - and he's right.

But I checked "childbirth" and that's not mentioned either.

So I guess we need to ban that too. - John Fugelsang

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I don't know how anyone could watch the #TrumpTownHall and come away from it thinking that trump is fit to serve.
He is his own worst enemy.

Business/Tech News

Jeff Bezos could give every Amazon employee $105,000 and still be as rich as he was before the pandemic.

If that doesn't convince you we need a wealth tax, I'm not sure what will. - Robert Reich

For-Profit Healthcare Needs To End
Some health insurance brokers provided misleading or false information to potential customers about whether their plans covered preexisting conditions, according to an undercover audit completed by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office.

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I’ve herd enough of the president’s mentality. - George Conway tweet

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