Crowded Lollapalooza music festival could bring cascade of Covid cases, experts warn

Crowded Lollapalooza music festival could bring cascade of Covid cases, experts warn

The Lollapalooza music festival in downtown Chicago will probably cause a surge in Covid-19 infections, said public health experts, after tens of thousands

Americans suffer from an ignorance that is not only colossal, but sacred.  -James Baldwin

 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Secret Service reveals over 12,000 protesters went to Capitol after Trump's Jan. 6 speech
• Co-workers called FBI after alleged Capitol Hill rioter bragged about Jan. 6, officials say
• Third police officer who responded to Jan. 6 attack dies by suicide
• Millions of people in China under lockdown amid COVID-19

Covid started out as a virus but mutated into an IQ test. - Sundae Gurl tweet

 

Mask Mandate In Louisiana Because The Governor Doesn't Want People To Die. What A Novel Concept.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) reinstated a statewide mask mandate for everyone 5 years old and up as the Pelican State has hit the most cases per capita in the U.S.

The governor announced the mask requirement over Twitter, citing surging COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, which he said are “threatening the ability of hospitals to deliver care.”

Wondering when insurance companies are going to come out and say if you chose to be unvaccinated you will have to pay your own medical costs. - Patricia Arquette

 

Republican Shenanigans

• Mary Trump: My uncle 'revealed the Republican Party to be what it is'
• Rudy Giuliani is reportedly close to broke—and Donald Trump isn't taking his calls
• Sarah Palin says she's praying about running for Senate against Murkowski
• Ron Johnson praises conservative author bashed by Fauci
• TN Pastor GOES OFF Over 'Nonsense' Covid Delta Variant; Tells Congregation 'Do Not Get Vaccinated!'
• Mike Lindell's Zoom Interview Crashed by Troll Calling Him a 'Marginally Brain-Addled Corrupt Goofball'
• McCarthy slammed for joking 'it would be hard not to hit' Pelosi with a gavel

Rudy Giuliani could have quietly lived in the shadows and continued to rake in millions with his bogus cybersecurity business but he had to hitch his wagon to the flamboyantly-criminal attention-magnet Trump and now he's drunk, broke and likely on his way to prison. HA F*CKING HA. - Jeff Tiedrich

 

Oh, Look, Another Reason To Stay The Hell Away From Lindsey Graham

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Monday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus, even though he was fully vaccinated.

“I was just informed by the House physician I have tested positive for COVID-19 even after being vaccinated,” he said.

Trump Tried To Overturn Election By Having Betsy DeVos Do Recount. - Andy Borowitz

Anyone who hitches their wagon to Donald Trump will end up just like Rudy Giuliani: abandoned on the trail with a back full of arrows.- Middle Age Riot

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Simone Biles is weak. Anyway, I’m off to beat up 81-year-old Nancy Pelosi. - OhNoSheTwitnt

Rock The Voter News

• White House says CDC can't renew eviction ban
• Biden names new watchdog at finance agency after embattled IG departs
• Poll shows broad support for bipartisan infrastructure bill

GOP Fighting DOJ Over Election Restrictions
Nearly five dozen House Republicans on Monday threw their weight behind a controversial Georgia election law, urging a federal judge to dismiss a legal challenge brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Florida - come for the beach, stay for the ventilator. - Sundae Gurl tweet

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Business/Tech News

• Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google
• Pro-Trump social network inundated with terrorist propaganda: report
• Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine to be sold to Blackstone-backed media company for $900 million
• Dolly Parton invested royalties from Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' into Black community

What exactly do conservatives conserve besides the fortunes of white men? - Middle Age Riot

 

Trump Herds His Predictable Sheep 
A number of political groups associated with former President Trump have spent tens of thousands of dollars at properties owned by the ex-president in the months after he was voted out of the White House, according to a report from The Washington Post.

Millions Scammed Into Sending Money to Person Claiming He Was Elected President in 2020. - Andy Borowitz

 

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Odd News

• Poland grants humanitarian visa to Belarusian Olympic sprinter who refused to board flight home
• Plague-infected chipmunks force closures around Lake Tahoe
• Woman convicted of swapping pebbles for gems in London heist
• Woman dodging suspected scam calls finds out she won $1.47M lottery prize
• Teams compete for title of Los Angeles County's toughest lifeguards

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Illustration of King Tutankhamun's coffin layers.

Peace.

Justice Department tells Treasury to turn over Trump tax returns to Congress

Justice Department tells Treasury to turn over Trump tax returns to Congress

The Justice Department told the Treasury Department that it "must" turn over former President Donald Trump's tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee, which first requested them more than two years ago.

First they came for Trump's tax returns, and I did not speak out— because I was laughing so hard I couldn't catch my breath. also, f*ck that guy. - Jeff Tiedrich

 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Former Trump official says 'just a matter of time' before unvaccinated get delta variant
• Masks should be worn in 70 percent of US counties: CDC
• Texas governor threatens to fine local officials who enforce new mask mandates
• Photos show massive, maskless crowds as Lollapalooza begins in Chicago, sparking concerns of a superspreader event

Republicans have put more effort into keeping AR-15s on the street than getting COVID-19 off it. - Middle Age Riot

 

No TGIF for Trump. Sad.

A Friday afternoon New York Times bombshell report stating that former president Donald Trump demanded Justice Department officials simply claim the 2020 presidential election was 'corrupt" and then 'leave the rest to him" has critics of Trump calling for his arrest.

The DC cops opener to the Jan 6 committee was huge. Now what? 

Where are the subpoenas? The momentum?

When does Cipollone testify? Don Jr? Jordan? McCarthy? Brooks? Gosar? Biggs? Ali Alexander? Vanky would draw a big audience. So would General Flynn. 

Why are they leaving town? - Scott Linnen

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump Pressured DOJ to Undermine Election Results: 'Just Say the Election Was Corrupt and Leave the Rest to Me'
• Trump continues GOP pressure campaign on infrastructure
• Maskless House Republicans March on the Senate in Protest of Pelosi's Mask Mandate
• Andy Biggs and House Freedom Caucus Push to Boot Cheney, Kinzinger From GOP: We've Got ‘Two Spies Sitting Right There’
• Mike Lindell Pulls All MyPillow Ads From Fox News After They Refuse to Run Ad About His Election Claims

I feel like we’re living in an Aesop fable but with dumber animals. - Andy Borowitz

47% of Republican Voters Have An Itchy Trigger Finger
About 47 percent of Republicans believe that a time will come when “patriotic Americans have to take the law into their own hands,” according to a George Washington University poll on Americans’ faith in election systems and democratic values. 

Boebert Says She Doesn’t Need Mask Because She Can Shoot Coronavirus With Gun. - Andy Borowitz

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden's Afghan Evacuations Begin With First Flight to U.S.
• Biden to accept posthumous award from Kosovo for son Beau
• Hunter Biden Responds to Those Questioning the Prices of His Priceless Art: 'F*ck Them'

Eventually, you reach a tipping point where the ship is going down and the rats start jumping over the side to save their own hairy asses.

I think we're pretty close with Republicans. There's a point where they realize covering for Trump is going to take them down too. - Stonekettle tweet

Florida Governor Focused On Infecting School Children

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he will soon sign an executive order that he's calling the parents' rights bill that will prevent mask mandates for children attending school in Florida.

The governor made the announcement on Friday at Two Meatballs in the Kitchen restaurant in Cape Coral.

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Business/Tech News

• U.S. jobless claims down 24,000 to 400,000 as economy recovers
• Broadway to require audiences be vaccinated, wear masks
• Netflix to require vaccinations on set
• Connecticut marijuana tax revenue expected to top $70M by 2025

I  just heard a 6-year-old say she wants to become a doctor "to cure infectious diseases and/or be vilified by half the country." - Conan O'Brien

Florida Woman Pays Employees $15 an Hour

One Florida business owner is saying labor shortage? What labor shortage?

Valhalla Resale in Tampa’s Seminole Heights neighborhood said its number of applicants doubled while the federal unemployment assistance blamed for creating a hiring crisis was in place.

Things to do today:

Get vaccinated.

Wear a mask. - Nancy Sinatra

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Odd News

• Russia Says Software Glitch Caused New ISS Module to Accidentally Fire Thrusters After Docking
• Enough ice melted in Greenland in single day to cover Florida in two inches of water
• Scientists transform water into shiny, golden metal
• Pilots in Los Angeles warned after possible sighting of man wearing jetpack
• Police remove trespassing alligator from resident's hot tub

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Climbers on the Himalayan K2 Mountain look like berries sprinkled on ice cream.

Peace.

Marjorie Taylor Greene calls on supporters to exercise 'Second Amendment rights' on vaccine door-knockers from Biden's 'police state'

Marjorie Taylor Greene calls on supporters to exercise 'Second Amendment rights' on vaccine door-knockers from Biden's 'police state'

Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia recently encouraged supporters to exercise their "Second Amendment rights" against vaccine door-knockers from President Joe Biden's "police state," in previously unreported remarks made to the Alabama Federation of Republican Women last Friday.

Who thinks Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar, Louie Gohmert, and Marjorie Taylor Green should sit down and shut the f*ck up? - Kate tweet

 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• DC police officer hits back at Fox News hosts for mocking his Capitol riot testimony
• Trump supporters going door to door demanding to know which candidate voters backed
• Lauren Boebert throws 'mask in the face of a floor staffer' as she fumes over 'totalitarian' House rules: report
• Bannon delivered an ominous warning on Jan. 6 – and it implicates Trump in the attack
• Watch: Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz Get Heckled off the Stage While Defending Capitol Rioters

When did treason get downgraded from punishable-by-death to let’s just move on? - 7Veritas4 tweet

They Knew

Republican Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama said he wore body armor to Donald Trump's January 6 rally in Washington, DC, after being tipped off about "risks" in the days leading up to the event, Slate reported.

"I was warned on Monday" — January 4 — "that there might be risks associated with the next few days," Brooks told the Slate politics writer Jim Newell.

Dr. Fauci created Covid-19 in the Wuhan lab out of WMDs, Hillary's emails & Obama's real birth certificate. 

But the Benghazi stand-down order caused Biden to ban hamburgers & that's why FOX viewers won't get the vaccine, even though Trump made it w/his own hands.

(owns libs) - John Fugelsang

 

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump Harassed Acting AG Almost Every Day Over Big Lie: Report
• Tucker Carlson escalates feud against Anthony Fauci by claiming he ‘created’ Covid
• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis mocks new CDC mask guidance and vows no more lockdowns
• GOP’s Thomas Massie dares Capitol police to arrest his staffers
• Texas GOP deputy attorney general deletes Simone Biles tweet, apologizes after boss comes to her defense
• Hearing takes a bizarre turn as Republican demands to know if Biden nominee believes in God
• This Was the Biggest, Loudest Cop Union in America. Then Came Jan. 6.
• 'Little Marco' Rubio humiliated for attacking Pentagon chief for complying with face shield mandate in the Philippines

As if we needed it, the Delta variant is further proof that nothing will ever be so bad that Republicans can’t make it worse. - Middle Age Riot

We May Witness A Massive GOP Perp Walk Parade

Congressional aides and visitors to the House side of the Capitol will face arrest if they're not wearing masks, the head of the U.S. Capitol Police announced this week.

In a Wednesday letter to his officer corps, Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger ordered that they enforce the new mask guidelines across the Capitol complex. Those new rules, installed by the Capitol physician earlier in the week, include a mask mandate on the House side of the Capitol and all House office buildings.

So Fox News viewers are less likely to get vaccinated

Rupert Murdoch has blood on his hands

A lot of it. - John Cleese

 

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Rock The Voter News

• 'Just Stop With This Craziness': Tim Ryan's Speech Against Kevin McCarthy Viewed 1 Million Times
• Biden to allow eviction moratorium to expire Saturday
• Advocates warn failure to address immigration will result in 'widespread losses for Democrats'
• American Samoa Teacher of the Year says she faced racial discrimination at Alabama airport

Trump Warns That Fixing Roads Will Make It Easier For People To Vote. - Andy Borowitz

 

They Know
"The storm" is a term that the far-right conspiracy theorists of QAnon are fond of using, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy used that term during a July 29 press conference when he was criticizing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's support of a mask mandate for the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Business/Tech News

• Once fading, mask sales starting to rebound
• 85% of flight attendants have dealt with an unruly passenger in 2021: Survey
• Is Billionaire Jeff Bezos An Astronaut? Not According To The FAA
• Facebook launching Ray-Ban 'smart glasses' as part of 'metaverse' plans

Rand Paul Warns Infrastructure Bill Infringes On Bridges’ Right To Crumble. - Andy Borowitz

 

Again, I'll Believe When I See It

When the Senate voted Wednesday to open debate on a roughly $1 trillion infrastructure package, more than a dozen Republicans sided with Democrats to advance the legislation.

The proposal, which came after weeks of negotiations between a bipartisan group of lawmakers and the White House...

I miss Obama's scandals, remember that time he wore a tan suit? The horror of it all!

 

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Odd News

• Powerful 8.2 earthquake jolts Alaska late Wednesday night
• Woman charged after she approached grizzly bear in Yellowstone with her phone
• Florida Man Hospitalized After Jumping Into Jaguar Exhibit at Zoo
• Florida man accused of practicing dentistry without a license
• California restaurant hires robot to offset worker shortage

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Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, stairway included.

Peace.