Florida and Texas account for nearly 40% of new coronavirus hospitalizations

Florida and Texas account for nearly 40% of new coronavirus hospitalizations

Of new hospitalizations for coronavirus-related illness, nearly 40 percent are in Florida and Texas, White House pandemic response coordinator Jeff Zients revealed during a Thursday press briefing.

Why isn't it illegal  to spread a deadly disease?

Don’t Fauci my Florida? Really, Ron? 

How about: Don’t DeSantis my Grandparents. - Charlie Crist

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• US scales back embassy staff in Kabul amid Taliban violence
• Dr. Fauci: 'Inevitably,' We'll Have to Give Booster Shots
• White House outlines grim COVID-19 trends as delta surge worsens
• MAGA hat-wearing Capitol rioter now claims he is a Democrat who 'did not care much' for Trump as he faces prison time
• 'We will find you': Tennessee parents protest school mask mandate; people in masks heckled

Going to be awkward when the people threatening doctors at school board meetings end up in their ICUs. - Schooley tweet

Conspiracy Theory From QAnon Ends In Father Killing His Two Children With A Spearfishing Gun.

The owner of a Southern California surf school told investigators he stabbed his young children to death with a spearfishing gun because he believed the kids—aged 1 and 3—were “going to grow into monsters,” according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday in Los Angeles federal court....In an interview with FBI agents, Coleman “explained that he was enlightened by the QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories and was receiving visions and signs revealing that his wife...possessed serpent DNA ...

Raise your hand if you believe Donald Trump would encourage the Taliban to attack our Capitol. - Tea Pain

 

School just started here in the Florida Panhandle. 

I was out running an errand before my bike ride this morning, and noticed kids (and parents) waiting at the bus stops. 

Not a single mask to be seen. 

Not one. Not even among the military kids in the local military housing complex -- who are usually smarter and more pragmatic about things. 

This area has LITERALLY one of the highest densities of both the unvaxxed *and* COVID Delta-variant infections in the world. - Jim Wright

Republican Shenanigans

• 'We want blood on our hands,' 'Let us fight': alarming calls for election violence - from government appointees
• Texas threatens to pull liquor licenses for restaurants that ask customers to show proof of vaccination
• Texas governor threatens to take school districts that defy ban on mask mandates to court
• Dominion Voting Systems sues Newsmax, One America over U.S. election fraud claims
• Laura Ingraham Tells Fox Viewers People Want School Mask Mandates So They Can 'Terrify Our Kids'
• Former U.S. Attorney Testifies He Resigned After Learning Trump Wanted to Fire Him for Not Backing Election Fraud Claims: Report
• Texts show Joel Greenberg arranging for him and Matt Gaetz to meet a woman who 'usually' requires '$400 per meet,'
• Rand Paul discloses wife's investment in remdesivir parent company — 16 months later

Finding out Rand Paul's family invested in Remdesivir is like finding out Wile E. Coyote invested in ACME. - Jeremy Newberger

 

How Did The MyPillow Guy Not Know This?  Wishful Thinking?

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was seen dashing off the stage at his cyber symposium Wednesday at the same time news broke that the $1.3 billion defamation suit filed against him by Dominion Voting Systems would go ahead.

Of all the indignities we ask of kids to endure in school, wearing masks has got to be way down there below gym class. - Schooley tweet

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden Administration Announces Vaccine Mandate for Another Federal Agency
• Biden calls on Congress to tackle soaring prices of prescription drugs
• Exhausting Dem filibuster ends with GOP win in Texas

Hey, remember when Hunter Biden got caught stealing from his own fake foundation and was forbidden from ever operating a charity again and had to attend a class on "how not to steal"? oh wait, that wasn't Hunter Biden, that was Donald Trump's three congenitally criminal children. - Jeff Tiedrich

Thinking of gerrymandering my yard to include my neighbor’s pool. - cpoliticditto tweet

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Business/Tech News

• Hacker is returning $600M in crypto, claiming theft was just “for fun”
• Oakland McDonald’s settles lawsuit alleging dog diapers were given to staff as masks
• Airbnb revenues jumped 300% but the company is warning about delta
• Rachel Maddow Seriously Considers Leaving MSNBC

Fox is treating as a scandal the fact that celebrities turned on Cuomo after it emerged that he sexually harassed or assaulted 11 women. It’s not a scandal to change one’s mind after obtaining new information. What is a scandal is Fox continuing to support Trump after it emerged that he sexually harassed or assaulted 26 women. Hope this clears things up. - Andy Borowitz

 

I Love Having A President With Compassion

President Joe Biden praised health care workers as heroes in response to the recent incident in which medical professionals were threatened by anti-mask protesters in Tennessee.

Biden’s remarks came as he held a press event at the White House to talk about the lowering of prescription drug prices and the FDA’s upcoming authorization for coronavirus vaccine booster shots.

I’m arranging catering for my Trump reinstatement party tomorrow.  What should be on the menu? - Scottacular tweet

 

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Odd News

• Top Washington state court finds $547 fine on homeless man excessive
• Dog missing for 2 years reunited with family after they saw him on TV
• Higher but still slim odds of asteroid Bennu slamming Earth
• Mount Etna is 100 feet taller than it was 6 months ago
• Slice of cake from Princess Diana, Prince Charles' wedding sells for over $2,500

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Golden throne of Tutankhamun. I just love ancient Egyptian art. 

Peace.

Arkansas legislators look at blocking employer vaccine mandates

Arkansas legislators look at blocking employer vaccine mandates

Fresh from rejecting a proposal to allow schools to require masks for young students, some Arkansas lawmakers are now targeting businesses that require employees to be vaccinated against covid-19.

During a committee meeting Tuesday, legislators approved the study of a bill that would prohibit employers from requiring the disclosure of an employee's vaccination status.

At this point most people are either 95% immune to Covid or 100% immune to facts. - Randi Mayem Singer

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• 'We Will Find You': Angry Parents Harass Doctors After Chaotic School Board Meeting for Promoting Masks
• COVID-ravaged county: Please use 911 sparingly
• Trump Issues Ominous Statement on the Officer Who Shot Ashli Babbitt: 'We Know Who He Is'
• US donates drones to Costa Rica

To all those folks chanting ‘no more masks’ at school board meetings in the south. You’re saying guns wrong. - Noel Casler

Just Pass The Darn Infrastructure Bill!
Senate Democrats approved a $3.5 trillion budget resolution early Wednesday morning, setting the stage in the weeks and months to come for the party to craft and attempt to pass a sweeping economic package expanding the social safety net that President Joe Biden has made a signature agenda item without the threat of a filibuster from Republicans who oppose it.

Delta is bad, but imagine how much worse it would be if Donald “It will go away like a miracle” Trump had been elected. Or you could just look at Florida and Texas. - Stephen King

 

Speaking of Donald Trump...

A federal judge on Wednesday narrowed a House subpoena for former President Trump's personal financial records, ruling that the congressional inquiry was overly intrusive but may proceed with a more limited scope.

U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta upheld the subpoena to the extent that it sought information about Trump's lease with the General Services Administration (GSA) for his D.C. hotel property and whether he violated the Constitution's emoluments clauses.

Republican Shenanigans

• NEW POLL: As August 13 Deadline Nears, Almost a THIRD of Republicans Think Trump Will Be 'Reinstated' as President This Year
• MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Has Higher Net Favorability Than Andrew Cuomo, Lindsey Graham, and AOC in New Poll
• Florida school administrators are risking their salaries to defy DeSantis on masks
• DeSantis says he doubts reports of Florida ventilators request
• Tucker Carlson Goes All In On Replacement Theory; Claims Democrats Importing Criminal Aliens to 'Change the Demographics of the Country'
• Arrest warrants issued for dozens of Texas Dems that fled state to halt voting bill
• IRS Files Reveal How Much the Ultrawealthy Gained by Shaping Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Tax Cut’
• Federal prosecutors came to suspect Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg lied, and considered charging him with perjury

The "Pro-Life Party" will kill us all. - Tea Pain

YouTube Suspends Randy Dandy Paul, Again.

YouTube suspended U.S. Sen. Rand Paul for seven days on Tuesday and removed a video posted by the Kentucky Republican that claimed cloth masks don’t prevent infection, saying it violated policies on COVID-19 misinformation.

It’s the second time this month that one of Paul’s videos has been taken down by YouTube for breaking its rules about misleading content.

Fauci says it is safe to watch youtube now that Rand Paul has been suspended. - Andy Borowitz

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I’m old enough to remember when the GOP had an ‘anything goes’ policy to protect the USA after 9/11. We were led to believe torturing ‘enemy combatants’ was for the greater good. Now those same assholes won’t even get a vaccine or let kids wear a mask in school. - Noel Casler

Rock The Voter News

• Biden's highest-ranking Muslim nominee mired in GOP blockade
• U.S. Senate to try again to pass voting rights in September, Schumer says
• Democratic leaders look to unite their party ahead of major spending push
• Incoming NY Gov. Hochul Pledges to Clean House: No One Named 'Doing Anything Unethical’ in Cuomo Report Will Stay On

Has Bipartisanship Become Contagious?
A bipartisan trio of senators introduced a bill that would rein in app stores of companies they said exert too much market control, including Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google.

Get vaccinated, because if you die from COVID-19, someone will pry the gun from your cold, dead hands. - Middle Age Riot

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Business/Tech News

• Consumer prices rise 5.4 percent from last July
• Judge signs off on new money laundering probe into Trump’s Scottish golf resorts
• $600M in digital tokens lost in hack of cryptocurrency site
• CNN's Brian Stelter Pilloried for Carrying Chris Cuomo's Water on The Late Show: 'Not a Good Look'
• Chris Cuomo's ratings among female viewers take a nosedive

Yesterday was the 100 year anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt being stricken with Polio.

The US has been polio free since 1979.

Because of... well, you know. - John Fugelsang

Facebook Jumps On Claim That Vaccines Turn You Into Chimpanzees!

Facebook has targeted and removed a Russian disinformation campaign that claimed that coronavirus vaccines could turn people into chimpanzees.

Facebook took down 65 Facebook accounts and 243 Instagram accounts that were connected to the misinformation campaign, according to a report released by the company on Tuesday.

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Odd News

• It's Double 'Jeopardy!': Mike Richards And Mayim Bialik Will Be New Hosts
• Space station supplies launched with a pizza delivery for 7
• Former criminal justice college professor accused of setting fires near Dixie Fire
• Man pleads guilty, fined $620 for explosion at gender reveal
• Florida woman thought she had won $100k. Nope, it was $1 million
• 115-year-old time capsule found during church demolition in Seattle

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The earth laughs in flowers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace.

Senate passes $1T bipartisan infrastructure bill in major victory for Biden

Senate passes $1T bipartisan infrastructure bill in major victory for Biden

The Senate on Tuesday passed a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal, a significant win for President Biden and the first step on his top legislative priority.

After years and years and years of “Infrastructure week” – we’re on the cusp of an infrastructure decade that will transform America. - President Biden

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Fauci Dismisses 'Individual Freedom' Before Sounding Alarm for Local Mandates: 'We're in Such a Serious Situation Now'
• Tucker Carlson Gives Bizarre Warning About Vaccine Mandates: ‘If You Can Do That, Why Can’t You Sterilize Me?’
• Ted Cruz Calls for ‘No Mandates, Zero’ on Masks or Vaccines as Texas Governor Announces Measures to Address Covid Surge
• Alabama officials dread ‘superspreader’ event at Trump rally in America’s least-vaccinated state

I try to optimistic, but then I read the state newspaper and get the feeling that America is now just Jonestown in slow motion. - Jimmie von Tungeln

 

Cuomo Steals Spotlight From Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned from office Tuesday, one week after an investigation concluded that he had sexually harassed 11 women and retaliated against his accusers.

At a press conference Tuesday, Cuomo announced that he would step down from the office. His resignation will be effective in 14 days.

New Yorkers Hopeful That Resignation Means Cuomo Will Stop Talking. - Andy Borowitz

 

Fauci Wants To Protect Teachers. The Nerve Of Him!
Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease doctor, on Tuesday, said he supports any effort from local governments to mandate that teachers be vaccinated against the coronavirus. 

Whoa! My vaccine microchip is teaching me Critical Race Theory. - Brian Hjelle

Republican Shenanigans

• Dominion Sues Newsmax, OANN and Overstock Founder For 'Barrage of Lies' Over 2020 Election
• Dr. Ashish Jha Reacts to Marjorie Taylor Greene Touting Low Alabama Vaccine Rate: What’s the Political Gain of ‘Extending This Pandemic?'
• Marjorie Taylor Greene suspended from Twitter for a week after claiming vaccines are ‘failing’
• Desperate? Rudy Giuliani Now Selling Personalized Video Messages for $200 a Pop
• 'I'm staying up here for 72 hours': Mike Lindell abruptly cancels food breaks at his 'cyber symposium'
• Greg Gutfeld Refers to MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski as 'That Dumb Broad'
• Trump-loving podcaster says America's founders would have launched military strikes against Drag Queen Story Hour

Marjorie three-names has been suspended for a week by Twitter and all I can think is why not forever. - George Takei

 

‘Rise Up, Patriots!’ Rand Paul Calls To Intubated Patients Lying Unconscious In Hospital ICU - The Onion

Gov. DeSantis Requests Federal Help

Florida is requesting hundreds of ventilators from the federal government after a surge in COVID-19 across the state, according to a Department of Health and Human Services planning document obtained by ABC News affiliate Local 10.

I have heard several times that some people don't want to take the vaccine for "religious reasons".

What the heck religion tells you not to take a vaccine????? - Pamela Apostolo tweet

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden Officials Reportedly Frustrated With CDC for Withholding Information From Them: 'Where the Hell are the Data?'
• AOC Tells Dana Bash She Thought She Was Going to be Raped and Killed During the Storming of the Capitol
• Zaid Jilani: 'Possibility' Cuomo could be prosecuted

Of course Andrew Cuomo should resign. 

Brett Kavanaugh, Gym Jordan and Matt Gaetz should also resign. 

Why is it only Dems who hold themselves accountable, while RepubliQans just double down? - Randi Mayem Singer

 

Prince Andrew Has Nowhere To Hide. Or Does He?

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of the many alleged victims of child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, has filed a federal lawsuit in New York accusing Britain’s Prince Andrew of sexually abusing her on multiple occasions when she was still underage.

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Business/Tech News

• AMC to accept bitcoin as payment by end of 2021
• Over 59,000 pounds of frozen foods recalled. They’re linked to a salmonella outbreak
• How anti-vaxxers weaponized Ivermectin, a horse de-wormer drug, as a COVID-19 treatment
• Miami condo deemed unsafe, residents ordered to evacuate

Laissez les bons temps rouler!
New Orleans city council voted Thursday to remove penalties for low-level cannabis possession offenses, while in a separate action city leaders decided to vacate thousands of past cannabis-related convictions

If you don’t think Donald Trump will end up in prison, remember, nobody thought he would end up in the White House either. - Middle Age Riot

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Odd News

• Mars rock mysteriously vanishes, baffling NASA scientists
•  Smoke from wildfires reaches North Pole for first time in history
• City of Kyle, Texas, attempting to gather Kyles for Guinness World Record
• Canadian woman unofficially sets world record running on all fours
• Bear opens 8 car doors in a single night
• A "war zone" that "smelled lovely": Explosion of women's deodorant rocks truck stop

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In the Atacama Desert in Chile, there's 3,000-year-old, densely packed shrub called Yareta. It looks like moss covering rocks, but it's actually a cluster of branches and leaves that is so hard you can stand on it

Peace.