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Does this mean they will come out on stage with the letter "A" on their foreheads like the good old days?

He is the one who decided to hold a rally on the anniversary of and in the city where the Tulsa massacre of blacks by whites took place. He has been giving coded messages to his brownshirts for nearly four years, so why would this be any different?

TRUMP'S FREUDIAN SLIP IS SHOWING! ‘That really just happened’: Trump slammed for describing the US Secret Service as the ‘SS’ The abbreviation commonly used for the U.S. Secret Service is USSS, but President Donald Trump used a different abbreviation in a June 11 tweet: SS. And he is being slammed for it on social media, as SS is typically used to describe Adolf Hitler’s notorious Schutzstaffel of Nazi Germany. In German, Schutzstaffel means “protection squadron.” And in Nazi Germany during the 1930s, Hitler’s paramilitary SS were known for being incredibly vicious. Trump tweeted, “Our great National Guard Troops who took care of the area around the White House could hardly believe how easy it was. ‘A walk in the park’, one said. The protesters, agitators, anarchists (ANTIFA), and others, were handled VERY easily by the Guard, D.C. Police, & S.S. GREAT JOB!” Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump Our great National Guard Troops who took care of the area around the White House could hardly believe how easy it was. “A walk in the park”, one said. The protesters, agitators, anarchists (ANTIFA), and others, were handled VERY easily by the Guard, D.C. Police, & S.S. GREAT JOB! https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/that-really-just-happened-trump-slammed-for-describing-the-us-secret-service-as-the-ss/

STORM BREWING: COVID Is So Bad in Arizona They’re Running Out of Beds “It’s like Katrina,” one health expert in the state said. “We’re at capacity.” That’s how a nurse in Arizona who treats COVID-19 patients summed up the situation at her state’s facilities on Wednesday, describing 12-hour shifts treating more and more severely ill patients, many of whom have died. “It’s exhausting and emotionally draining, and you feel helpless and just very sad for people,” the nurse, who requested anonymity for fear of professional retaliation, told The Daily Beast. As of Wednesday afternoon, Arizona had at least 28,296 confirmed coronavirus cases and 1,706 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center, which also showed a concerning upward trend. The state had 1,553 new cases on June 5, its highest daily peak for new cases since the pandemic began. According to a comparison of all 50 states, the Johns Hopkins data showed that Arizona had among the biggest upward case trends of any state in the U.S. https://www.thedailybeast.com/covid-is-so-bad-in-arizona-theyre-running-out-of-beds?ref=home (Don't they know that the Great Leader promised that warm weather would make the Coronavirus go "poof"? FAKE NEWS!!!)

Damn, where are we going to get a $5.00 cup of coffee now?

Multiple strains of coronavirus are now circulating in the US. Here’s what that means As the coronavirus moves around the country, it's mutating — but that isn't as bad as it sounds) Anew analysis published in the journal Science found seven new strains of the coronavirus that have been circulating in California — and that's according to a very small sample size. Specifically, a group of international scientists looked at samples from 36 COVID-19 patients in nine California counties and the Grand Princess cruise ship from late January to mid-March. Through a phylogenetic analysis — which is when researchers study the evolutionary relationships of genes — they found at least seven different SARS-CoV-2 lineages, including the WA1 strain which has been associated with Washington state. https://www.salon.com/2020/06/11/multiple-strains-of-coronavirus-are-now-circulating-in-the-us-heres-what-that-means/

Donald Trump, hydroxychloroquine and the world's largest fund manager: A love story? Does BlackRock explain Trump's strange affection for hydroxychloroquine — and a specific brand of COVID-19 test? As the fiery social justice movement in the wake of George Floyd's death has forced news about the coronavirus pandemic off front pages across the country, President Trump's obsession with the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for COVID-19 has appeared to wane. Though Trump might yet raise the drug's ghost — especially given the recent retraction of a study that appeared to seal the drug's fate — the motives for his ardor are still unclear. One explanation is that while the treatment might have been a dud against the coronavirus, it proved more effective against Trump's political troubles. Another, however, lurks in the financial links between the president and pharmaceutical companies that produce the drug, including a previously unreported and apparently unrequited relationship between Trump and the CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest fund manager, whom Trump named to the White House coronavirus economic advisory council. Trump has still never fully explained why he promoted the drug so forcefully for so long, going so far as to claim he himself took it daily for two weeks despite an outpouring of studies that found the treatment increased the risk of cardiac arrest and death, while providing no measurable benefits https://www.salon.com/2020/06/11/donald-trump-hydroxychloroquine-and-the-worlds-largest-fund-manager-a-love-story/

‘WE CAN’T LET THAT HAPPEN’: Michael Moore Warns Trump Will Use Coronavirus to Try to Postpone 2020 Election “He’s read the polls. He sees the data that he’s probably going to lose. He knows it,” Moore told Seth Meyers. After spending his first segment on Late Night with Seth Meyers expressing how hopeful the massive protests against police brutality were making him, Michael Moore took a very dark turn Wednesday night. Noting that Moore was one of the few public figures predicting that Trump would beat Hillary Clinton in 2016, Seth Meyers asked the documentary filmmaker how “worried” he is about the country’s ability to hold a fair election in the fall. “I’m very worried about this. We all need to be very worried about this,” Moore said. He pointed to the giant fence that the president has erected around the White House this past week as an ominous sign of what’s to come. “We make jokes about this, but I think this is a dry run for the fall,” Moore added. Stressing that he has “no inside information” from Eric or Donald Trump Jr., he said, “I do believe that he’s now read the polls. He sees the data that he’s probably going to lose. He knows it. And so now he’s got to come up with something. And that something will be him trying to postpone the election.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-moore-warns-trump-will-use-coronavirus-to-try-to-postpone-2020-election?ref=home

‘Gross abuse of prosecutorial power’: Court-appointed lawyer rebukes Barr’s handling of Flynn case A retired federal judge appointed to argue against the Department of Justice’s move to drop criminal charges against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn has recommended that the court proceed with sentencing. He called the department’s request to drop the case “a gross abuse of prosecutorial power” in an attempt to “provide special treatment” to a “political ally of the president of the United States.” https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/gross-abuse-of-prosecutorial-power-court-appointed-lawyer-rebukes-barrs-handling-of-flynn-case/

Trump Returns to Campaign Trail With Juneteenth Rally in Tulsa, Site of a Racist Massacre President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he would hold a campaign rally in Tulsa on June 19th, his first since coronavirus precautions halted nearly all large events. The date and location of the rally are significant—June 19th marks Juneteenth, the anniversary of the emancipation of the last enslaved African-Americans in the Confederacy. Tulsa was the site of a racist massacre in 1921, when mobs of white people destroyed the Greenwood District, which was known as “Black Wall Street,” for being the wealthiest black community in the country. The attackers murdered dozens of Greenwood residents. Kamau Marshall, head of strategic communications for former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign, expressed outrage over the choice of date and place: “How racist is Donald Trump: He’s so racist that he plans on having one of his first campaign rallies on June 19th in Tulsa, OK. If you don’t know—Do some research on #Juneteenth and the racial violence that took place in Oklahoma known as the Tulsa Race Massacre, 1921.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-returns-to-campaign-trail-with-tulsa-rally-as-oklahomas-coronavirus-numbers-spike

CDC Says Coronavirus Infections in the U.S. Are Increasing Sharply as the Rest of the World Figures It Out Even as the United States begins to lift its coronavirus lockdown orders, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is putting out dire warnings about increasing infection numbers. A CDC report dated June 9 shows infection numbers in the U.S. increasing by 36 percent per day. The majority of other countries listed, including the United Kingdom, Italy, and Spain, enjoyed declining infection rates. Only Russia, Peru, and India’s infection numbers were growing, and even then by less than 5 percent. Health experts the world over have warned that the pandemic is far from finished, and some have even predicted another 100,000 Americans will die from it. Nearly 2 million people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the U.S., and more than 110,000 have died. - Yahoo News

Which does no good at all to the credibility of the protest movement.

That 38% of the American population still supports Trump after all the stupid, racist, fascist, criminal things he has said and done is beyond sad and says very bad things about America.

War? Yes. With Russia? No. The Israelis have been hankering for the US to attack Iran for years, as Iran is the only remaining military that could oppose Israel seizing more land in defiance of UN directions and world condemnation.

The GOP has become a lot more brazen and systematic in their voter suppression and voter intimidation. They are encouraged by the White house and the corrupted DOJ in their efforts. This is going to get really, really ugly, folks.

Trump Campaign Demands CNN Retract, Apologize for Poll Showing Joe Biden Leading President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign demanded that CNN retract and apologize for a poll that showed Democratic candidate Joe Biden leading by 14 points. The campaign sent a cease and desist letter to CNN President Jeff Zucker Wednesday. The network immediately rejected the president’s demand. “We stand by our poll,” CNN spokesman Matt Dornic said. In addition to showing Biden with a lead of 55 percent to 41 percent over Trump, the poll found the president’s approval rating to be 38 percent, the lowest it has been since January 2019, and his disapproval rating to be 57 percent. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-campaign-demands-cnn-retract-apologize-for-poll?ref=home

An epidemiologist interviewed on CNN this morning at 11:45 stated that it should be expected that there will be another 100,000 deaths by September in the US.

Trump ought to be in a stable.

They already have in electing Trump who wants to take away what little Medicare they have under ACA, but yes, this is poised to devastate the South.

Another link to a mediocre past severed. That would leave only Wheeler and Little, right?

Its going to be a critical year for several Jet signings. Stanley will probably get another year in the Moose-Jet jerseys, but Niku and Rosolvic have to be on the bubble. Neither have lived up to their potentials and could be trade bait.

Tulsa Police Major: We Shoot Fewer Black People Than We Ought To Reuters / Nick Oxford A white Tulsa Police Department major has attempted to deny that systemic racism exists in U.S. police forces—while also saying that he thinks cops should really be shooting more black people. Maj. Travis Yates made his jaw-dropping comments on a talk radio podcast earlier this week, according to Tulsa Public Radio. Discussing statistics that show black people are far more likely to be shot by police than white people, Yates said: “If a certain group is committing more crimes, more violent crimes, and law enforcement’s having to come into more contact with them, that number is going to be higher. Who in the world in their right mind would think that our shootings should be right along the U.S. Census lines? That's insanity.” Yates went on to say: “All of the research says we’re shooting African-Americans about 24 percent less than we probably ought to be, based on the crimes being committed.” Speaking about systematic abuse of power and racism in U.S. police forces, he said: “That just doesn’t exist.”

Georgia election disaster condemned as result of deliberate GOP voter suppression: ‘This is by design’ Photos of would-be Georgia voters standing—and, in some cases, sitting—in long lines after 11 pm to cast their ballots in the state’s primary on Tuesday encapsulated what rights groups and lawmakers decried as a disastrous day for democracy and an entirely predictable result of years of deliberate voter suppression efforts by Republican lawmakers and the U.S. Supreme Court. https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/georgia-election-disaster-condemned-as-result-of-deliberate-gop-voter-suppression-this-is-by-design/

Elon Musk reopened his Tesla factory in defiance of county orders. Then an outbreak happened Last months, Tesla CEO Elon Musk openly defied stay-at-home orders in Alameda County in order to reopen his car factory in Fremont, California. The oppositional billionaire, who had been skeptical of public health recommendations — and who previously dismissed the pandemic as “dumb” —first filed a lawsuit for injunctive relief; then threatened to take his factory to another state; then called Alameda County’s interim health officer “ignorant.” Musk even said he was willing to be arrested for the noble “cause” of restarting production. And what did that get him? According to a new report by the Washington Post, a coronavirus outbreak in the factory. https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/elon-musk-reopened-his-tesla-factory-in-defiance-of-county-orders-then-an-outbreak-happened/

Emergency COVID-19 measures prevented more than 500 million infections, study finds A person in protective clothing walks through an empty 2,000-bed medical facility for COVID-19 patients in Iran. Emergency public health measures designed to slow the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran and five other countries have prevented hundreds of millions of infections — and helped to avert a global catastrophe, says new research by a team from the Global Policy Lab at UC Berkeley. (AP photo by Ebrahim Noroozi) Emergency health measures implemented in six major countries have “significantly and substantially slowed” the spread of the novel coronavirus, according to research from a UC Berkeley team published today in the journal Nature. The findings come as leaders worldwide struggle to balance the enormous and highly visible economic costs of emergency health measures against their public health benefits, which are difficult to see. In the first peer-reviewed analysis of local, regional and national policies, the researchers found that travel restrictions, business and school closures, shelter-in-place orders and other non-pharmaceutical interventions averted roughly 530 million COVID-19 infections across the six countries in the study period ending April 6. Of these infections, 62 million would likely have been “confirmed cases,” given limited testing in each country. https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/06/08/emergency-covid-19-measures-prevented-more-than-500-million-infections-study-finds/