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I believe that's correct, but I don't really remember the details either.

Yeah. I'm not really in a position where I generally have to follow the tracking, though. I'm sure if it's happening to your stuff it's happening everywhere, though.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/14/postal-service-trump-dejoy-delay-mail/ tl;dr, they're telling carriers to just leave mail at the distribution facilities instead of working any OT to get it all delivered on the day it's supposed to go out. Matt Bors, the guy who drew the "We should improve society somewhat" comic says he's getting shipments of his books abandoned and returned to him And, I have no real way to confirming this dude's identity, but he says he works for the USPS and wrote a long thread detailing what they were told and how he thinks this is going to snowball out of control In unrelated news, more people then ever before will be voting by mail this year, and most of them will be Democrats!

Remember when she spent several months in Australia and it was in service of writing a column that basically amounted to, "hey, turns out Australia is pretty chill!"

Notice Trump seemingly dropping a ball to play even though he seems to be in the middle of a hole

Wow, they actually did it

If they won't name the "White House officials" then how are they openly discredting Fauci? What reason is there to let them launder this shit anonymously?

I don't think anything is known about the exact cause yet, but there was a reported explosion. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/12/us/ship-explosion-san-diego-naval-base/index.html?utm_content=2020-07-12T19%3A04%3A00&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twcnnbrk&utm_term=link

I earnestly hope that this leads to at least a few MAGA mindset people who don't currently wear masks in public to start.

There was a district in update NY that had a special election during their primary last month. I don't know the number offhand. I guess the results were something like R+30 on election night and had shrunk all the way down to about R+5 once the mail-in vote was counted. So if the election night vs. mail-in swing is that dramatic nationwide, that is something that's in the back of my mind--that Republicans would hold up the margin itself as evidence that of course the mail-in vote is rigged.

I could see maybe a mass resigning & replacement of any conservative judges that are near retirement age that haven't already been replaced, since that's one thing that they could do without involving the House. If they controlled both houses of Congress, you're right, they absolutely would run the Wisconsin playbook and try and kneecap the power of the presidency.

Insert all the usual caveats here. Four months to go, dynamics of the race can change, voter disenfranchisement, etc. etc. But they're on the defensive in so, so many places that they didn't have to concern themselves with at all in 2016

Definitely good vibes watching a stormtrooper beckon you to come towards a pandemic hot spot.

Because my brain is broken this is all I can think about when I hear Goya

Illinois cases and positive % are both on the upswing now. It's been exactly two weeks since we reopened partial indoor restaurants and bars. Illinois has handled itself better then some, but I think they fucked up with that. I don't think anything involving prolonged indoor exposure is going to work until the baseline of cases are way, way further down. I honestly don't know what to do with school in the fall. I'd be an absolute mess right now if I had kids.

Uhh, we've seen this movie before

The Big 10 is expected announce soon that they're cancelling all non-conference games for fall sports. I gotta believe this is gonna be like what happened in the spring where a couple of individual conference tournaments were cancelled but then the dominoes started falling and within a day or two there was no more march madness. I don't think we're getting fall college football.

Props to Gorsuch for being cool on one specific issue

Look, we've all played Civ, this is because Polynesia gets to start with the ability to move across ocean tiles.

Everybody knows Ecstasy of Gold from Good the Bad and the Ugly, for good reason, but this is one that sticks with me a lot too. The entire score is gorgeous. Also, don't forget about The Thing! Good as hell.

I'm like -7.0 in my left eye, plus there's some astigmatism correction in there, and I don't know what those numbers mean. My right eye isn't as bad as that.

Not subtle

If you read through this thread, it's mostly good news for the long run of this, although a big takeaway is that the first vaccine to hit the market is probably not going to eradicate this thing. The first one will probably be as effective as the seasonal flu shot, and as they get released over time they'll improve in effectiveness gradually. Hopefully the antibody therapies being tested now bear out, although there's not a lot of detail about that in here.

He's just got a healthy hydroxycholroquine glow