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Illinois is back up to 868 cases today after we'd gotten as far down as ~500-ish at the low point, but the positive rate has been holding at 2.6%, so testing is still increasing. It's been about a week since IL reopened everything indoors w\ limited capacity regulations that are maybe not being followed strictly. I got a bad feeling we're gonna regret that in another week or two, but I guess we'll see.

There's an alternate universe where everything's the same except that an NBC executive decides to pass when pitched with the idea for The Apprentice, and in that universe there's probably 100,000 more Americans alive right now.

I guess you can somehow contort an argument that if you personally feel that having a mask on during a church service is inherently altering the service then your rights are being infringed. Like you think it's an affront to God if all of the call and responses sound muffled or something, I dunno.

lol c'mon

A common theory I see is that this is a test (by, like, the globalist new world order or whatever) to see what people will comply with willingly for when they do the REAL marxist stuff a few years down the line.

There was a Medicaid expansion provision on the ballot in Oklahoma and it looks like it's passed by about 1%

I never thought leopards would eat MY face...

I'm not real familiar with all of the QAnon stuff, but my understanding is that a lot of the stuff they believe at this point, like JFK Jr. being alive (??), didn't even originate with the actual Q posts. It's basically a self-perpetuating religion at this point.

OMG

I sincerely doubt Donald Trump himself knows what Ax Handle Saturday is, but I'm 100% sure that, say, Steven Miller knows what Ax Handle Saturday is.

Apparently there's also stuff in the TOS saying that Parler can sue you for your posts lol

lol, the video is from The Villages, the giant boomer gated community in Florida . https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/18/florida-senior-citizens-vote-election-2018-218758

"It's the Cherenkov effect."

60 Minutes will report tomorrow that the FDA knowingly distributed faulty antibody tests https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-officials-allowed-flawed-covid-19-antibody-tests-2020-06-25/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7d&linkId=92064279

We just gotta figure out what industry we can "disrupt" that hasn't been disrupted yet. Please keep in mind that said "disruption" definitely does not have to make anything easier or better for consumers, but it definitely does have to involve an app.

To my knowledge, there still haven't been any confirmed cases of re-infections. When they thought people were maybe being re-infected in Korea it turned out to be people who were "shedding" the virus for a really long period of time and getting false negatives on tests before getting positives on a re-tests. I'm guessing the same thing is happening here.

https://www.citizensforethics.org/doj-non-prosecution-memo/ The DOJ confirmed that there's a nine page memo explaining the reasoning behind not charging Trump with obstruction of justice, but is keeping basically the entire thing redacted except for a couple of sentences on the first page

The Roberts court has been absolutely dogshit for voting rights

Oh, without question

The Kansas-Missouri rivalry is called the Border War, and in that case it's literally referring to the Union/Confederacy border

Trump by his nature is a black hole that sucks in all the media attention, but Pence really deserves to get a lot more shit than he has. He's been traveling around at least as much as Trump has and hasn't been using masks or social distancing whatsoever. There was a photo of him eating in a crowded restaurant a couple of weeks ago.

Biden would clearly win easily if the election were help tomorrow but... c'mon. Trump ain't losing Mississippi. Is there actually a poll that shows Biden ahead there? I dunno what they're actually basing this on.

Wait, what are we combining Arkansas with? Oklahoma?

Might be forgetting some things, but as I recall, before the pandemic, there were two things that really seemed to drop Trump's approval rating outside of the very narrow range that it's tended to stay in: passing the tax bill that was very obviously rigged towards the ultra-rich, and almost destroying the ACA before McCain blocked it. So on an tactical level, it seems insane to want to pursue this in an election year, but I guess they really are that sociopathic that they can't abide by a small subset of the country getting government subsidies to make the cost of health care slightly less crippling.