So....he DID hear it?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Countdown

I want to see this picture again in three weeks with circles around the faces of the people who test positive.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Trump's going to be rage-tweeting at John Roberts

In its first big abortion ruling of the Trump era, the United States Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights over fierce opposition from dissenting conservative justices.

Chief Justice John Roberts joined with his four more liberal colleagues in ruling that a Lousiana law that imposes restrictions on doctors who perform abortions violates a right the court first announced in the landmark Roe v Wade decision in 1973.

In two previous abortion cases, Roberts had favoured more restrictions on the procedure.

[...]

The presence of the new justices is what fueled hopes among abortion opponents, and fears on the other side, that the Supreme Court would be more likely to uphold restrictions.

The Republican-backed Louisiana law included a requirement that doctors who perform abortions have a difficult-to-obtain arrangement called "admitting privileges" at a hospital within 48km (30 miles) of the abortion clinic.

Abortion opponents called the ruling a "bitter disappointment".

  alJazeera

Especially if they voted for Trump only to get a conservative SCOTUS to do their bidding on abortion rights.

The Louisiana law is virtually identical to one in Texas that the court struck down in 2016, when conservative Justice Anthony Kennedy joined the four liberal justices to defend abortion rights, but Kennedy retired in 2018 and Republican President Donald Trump replaced him with conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh, moving the court further to the right.

And so soon after they handed Trump a defeat on DACA and protections for the LGBTQ community.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

We'll be there to stymie it

The US is to join with other major powers including China, India and the EU in formulating plans for a global green recovery from the coronavirus crisis, in the only major international summit on the climate emergency this year.

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Next week, the International Energy Agency (IEA) will host an online summit for the world’s biggest economies as well as developing countries, covering 80% of global emissions. It aims to set out plans for boosting renewable energy, energy efficiency and other emissions-cutting projects that would generate tens of millions of “shovel-ready” green jobs around the world to replace those lost in the pandemic.

[...]

The idea of a green recovery to prevent a dangerous rebound in greenhouse gas emissions to above pre-Covid-19 levels has been gathering steam, but few governments have yet committed to plans.

If they fail to do so in the next few months, the economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis risks locking in high carbon emissions that would lead to climate catastrophe.

[...]

The IEA summit on 9 July will be the only major meeting of governments to discuss the climate crisis this year, because the UN Cop26 summit has been postponed to next year due to the pandemic. US participation is crucial, because the White House is pulling out of the Paris agreement, with effect from 4 November, the day after the presidential election.

[...]

Birol fears a rerun of the recovery after the financial crisis of 2008, when emissions declined sharply in the recession but quickly returned to levels much higher than before, as governments invested in coal-fired power plants, constructed inefficient buildings, and rolled out road-building schemes.

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Research has already found that pursuing a green recovery would create more jobs and a greater return on investment in both the short and the long term than a return to business as usual.

  Guardian

Surely it's a liberal hoax.

What will his response be?

Iran issues arrest warrant for Donald Trump over Qassem Suleimani killing

Iran has issued an arrest warrant for Donald Trump and 35 others over the killing of top general Qassem Suleimani and has asked Interpol for help, Tehran prosecutor Ali Alqasimehr said on Monday, according to the Fars news agency.

The United States killed Suleimani, leader of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, with a drone strike in Iraq on 3 January. Washington accused Suleimani of masterminding attacks by Iranian-aligned militias on US forces in the region.

Alqasimehr said the warrants had been issued on charges of murder and terrorist action.

[...]

He said Iran would continue to pursue the matter after Trump’s time in office ended.

  Guardian

I don't think he was planning on visiting Iran at any time in the near future, but you never know.

Trump is going out openly racist

First he retweets a video of a supporter yelling "white power". The next day, he retweeted a white couple brandishing guns pointed at protesters. Republicans, you own this. Impeach him with the 25th. Imagine what four more years would bring.

Donald Trump courted controversy on Monday – and perhaps sought to deflect attention from reports about Russia placing bounties on US soldiers in Afghanistan – by retweeting news footage of a white couple in St Louis, Missouri who pointed guns at protesters marching for police reform.

The president’s action came a day after he retweeted footage of protesters clashing in Florida in which a Trump supporter could be heard to say “White power! White power!”

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The protesters in St Louis were marching to the mayor’s home to demand her resignation. In a Facebook live briefing on Friday, Lyda Krewson read the names and addresses of several residents who wrote letters suggesting she defund the police department.

The video was removed from Facebook and Krewson apologized on Friday, stating she did not “intend to cause distress”.

On Sunday a group of at least 500 people headed towards the mayor’s home, chanting, “Resign Lyda, take the cops with you.”

A social media video showed the unidentified armed white couple standing outside their home on Sunday evening in the Central West End neighbourhood, shouting at protesters. People in the march moved the crowd forward, urging participants to ignore them.

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Trump’s retweet also came after a gunman in Louisville, Kentucky, shot dead a photographer during protests over the death of Breonna Taylor, an African American woman killed by police in her own home.

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On Monday morning, Trump also retweeted a series of messages seeking to identify protesters involved in attempts to remove statues of figures from American history.

  Guardian

Here's the post Trump retweeted:

UPDATE:

So...he DID hear it.  We knew it.

Reopened a bit too soon?

I don't a recommendation is going to cut it.  People will be coming from the closed counties.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Mississippi will redesign its racist state flag

To be sure, that's excellent, but it's a disgrace that they've had it this long

Police state of America

Further on the report.

Bullshit

It's Ratcliffe, FFS.  He's lying.

It worked for Reagan.  That, and "I forgot."

It's here.

And what?  They didn't tell Pence either?  Bullshit.  He was briefed.  he didn't want to do anything about it.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

And by "intel" does he mean Ratcliffe?

He has people trained.  They tell him what he wans to hear.

UPDATE:

Amen.