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16th November 2020
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16th November 2020
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Omar’s campaign was the largest known client of Tim Mynett’s firm, E Street Group, having paid the firm $2.78 million since July 2019, Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show. Mynett co-owns the firm with Will Hailer, a former staffer for Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. E Street Group’s second-largest client that reports to the FEC was the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which has reported payments of $128,000 to the firm.
Omar said in an email Sunday to her supporters that she did not cut ties with her husband’s firm sooner because of the spending her primary and general election opponents put up against her.
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16th November 2020
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The dysfunction of the Congress is the core problem confronting the American system of government today. The first branch is first for a reason, and when it fails to do its essential work, nothing else works either.
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15th November 2020
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14th November 2020
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13th November 2020
Steven Hayward at PowerLine.
The renewable energy fanatics like to point out that the cost of solar power has been falling dramatically over the past decade, the result of technological and manufacturing improvements. This is true, but raises the question: why does the solar industry continue to demand subsidies then?
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13th November 2020
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11th November 2020
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11th November 2020
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The Democrat infighting has begun. Or, perhaps, resumed in earnest, now that they think the presidential election is over. Now the various factions in the Democratic Party, who share little in ideology and often don’t even like each other, start jockeying for position over the next two to four years. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D–MI) is one of the far-leftists who is very unhappy with Joe Biden’s policies and strategies, which she views as too moderate.
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11th November 2020
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Two Republican California Assembly members, James Gallagher and Kevin Kiley, filed a lawsuit against Newsom’s executive orders for an overreach of power in June and recently received a victory in the case. “The Judge found good cause to issue a permanent injunction restraining the Governor from issuing further unconstitutional orders” tweeted Kiley the day before the election.
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11th November 2020
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Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, who has previously called for budget cuts for police, utilized the emergency service Nov. 1 after her Lyft driver cancelled her ride.
Lyft driver Richmond Frost picked Hardesty up at a casino, according to KOIN. Frost kept the windows open in accordance with COVID protocols that Lyft implemented.
Frost told police that Hardesty “became irate when he refused to roll the windows up,” according to Fox News. He then pulled into a gas station and canceled the ride, asking Hardesty to leave the vehicle. However, Hardesty allegedly refused to get out of the car because “it was cold and she was a woman and alone,” per the same report.
She then called 911 and told police she would not get out in the dark, according to audio obtained by The Oregonian.
‘Rules are for thee but not for me’ is a fundamental axiom of the Crust.
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10th November 2020
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The Trump campaign will file yet another election lawsuit in Michigan, communications director Tim Murtaugh announced to reporters on a Tuesday evening phone call.
The suit — which similar to prior attempts in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada — seeks to block the local secretary of state from certifying the results of the election on the grounds that Michigan ran an unconstitutional election. The suit will additionally look to grant campaign officials the opportunity to review counted ballots in Wayne County, Michigan. Trump 2020 General Counsel Matt Morgan and Counsel to the Campaign Thor Hearne also took part in the call, and like the Pennsylvania suit filed Monday, claim that poll watchers in Democrat-ran counties received “unequal treatment” compared to their counterparts in Republican-ran counties.
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10th November 2020
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10th November 2020
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The state allows residents to classify themselves “indefinitely confined,” meaning the person is largely limited to his or her home due to age, disability or other factors, a GOP official told the Examiner. The classification requires a witness signature, but under it, voters can cast an absentee ballot without showing valid ID, the Examiner reported.
A total of 243,000 people classified themselves as “indefinitely confined” in 2020 compared to 72,000 in 2019 in the state, according to the Examiner. A local county clerk previously said those who were subject to Wisconsin’s coronavirus lockdown orders would meet the threshold to be considered home-bound, but the state supreme court in March sided against the clerk and clarified that his legal advice was misguided, Courthouse News Service reported.
The court did not indicate that it would take action to investigate or invalidate anyone who registered under the clerk’s guidelines, according to Courthouse News Service.
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10th November 2020
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But of course they would.
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10th November 2020
John Hinderaker at PowerLine.
Yesterday GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel held a press conference and unveiled 131 affidavits and 2,800 incident reports documenting fraud and other irregularities in the election in Michigan.
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10th November 2020
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But how exactly is Biden going to make sure Americans, weary of following all these social distancing rules after nine months, toe the line? By doing what Europe did: Imposing onerous fines and penalties.
Security Theater for the masses!
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9th November 2020
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The amateurs are giving way to the professionals in the Democrat party.
Time to leave.
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9th November 2020
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A most interesting thread popped up on Twitter Sunday from a data scientist who wishes to remain anonymous, regarding mail-in ballot data which strongly suggests fraud occurred in the wee hours of election night, when several swing states inexplicably stopped reporting vote counts while President Trump maintained a healthy lead over Joe Biden.
Using time series data ‘scraped’ from the New York Times website, the data – comparing several states (swing and non-swing) – clearly illustrates what fraud does and does not look like, and how several anomalies in swing states left ‘fingerprints of fraud’ as Biden pulled ahead of President Trump.
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9th November 2020
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A new post-election poll from the Media Research Center, conducted by McLaughlin & Associates, shows 36 percent of Biden voters were NOT aware of the evidence linking Joe Biden to corrupt financial dealings with China through his son Hunter. Thirteen percent of these voters (or 4.6% of Biden’s total vote) say that had they known these facts, they would not have voted for the former Vice President.
Such a shift away from Biden would have meant President Trump would have won the election with 289 electoral votes. (Details below.)
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8th November 2020
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8th November 2020
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Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos instructed a review of the state’s election results following concerns about mail-in ballots and voter fraud, according to Wisconsin State Journal.
Wisconsin concluded an unofficial count of the 2020 election earlier this week, putting Joe Biden at only 20,000 votes in the lead, the Wisconsin State Journal reported. The Associated Press and Fox News were among several news media to call the election Saturday for Biden, but President Donald Trump has yet to concede citing recounts and ongoing litigation.
Vos constructed a team to analyze if the election was administered legally. Votes in Wisconsin must go through three different levels of certification, according to Fox6 News Milwaukee. Meanwhile, Wisconsin clerks are currently in the process of reviewing all results in the state.
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7th November 2020
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7th November 2020
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Pennsylvania has a website that shows voters Dates of Birth and voting status. It seems there are thousands of obviously dead people who voted. Don’t trust me. Look it up.
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6th November 2020
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This afternoon, the Republican Party of Michigan held a press conference and alleged that a software “glitch” caused thousands of votes for Republican candidates to be counted for Democrats instead.
Gee, that sure sounds like vote fraud to me.
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5th November 2020
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5th November 2020
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The bipartisan body tasked with administering elections has instead spent the past year tilting the scales for Joe Biden.
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5th November 2020
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COVID-19 brought K-12 education to a grinding halt in March.
Many traditional public schools remain closed to in-person instruction this fall, while many families are left to navigate the school districts’ crisis online-learning offerings.
Some families, however, opted to try a relatively new education model; namely, learning pods.
Parent-driven learning pods, in which families collaborate to create small education environments that emphasize in-person schooling to small student groups, swept the nation in response to school closures.
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5th November 2020
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San Francisco voters approved a new tax that will target businesses with the most disproportionately paid CEOs.
Measure L required a simple majority to pass and was approved by 65.18% of voters Tuesday night, making San Francisco the first U.S. city to move to tax both private and public businesses based on how “overpaid” their top executives are.
Time to leave.
The measure, introduced by Supervisor Matt Haney and backed by the board, is expected to generate between $60 million and $140 million a year in general funds starting in 2022, according to an estimate by the city. Haney said he wants most of the money to be directed towards health services.
These ‘estimates’ never pan out, because the companies leave or restructure to avoid the tax.
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4th November 2020
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2nd November 2020
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2nd November 2020
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In the closing days of the most consequential presidential election of our lifetimes, the New York Post has dropped a bombshell into this race. Whether Democrats or the mainstream media want to admit it, serious concerns have been raised about Joe Biden and his family – and the evidence is now pouring out to the public.
The question Americans should be asking is, “Why are we only now hearing about this?”
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1st November 2020
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30th October 2020
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30th October 2020
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Two former U.S. Navy SEALs started a business (Matbock) to develop and sell equipment they wish they had while SEALs but could not find. One of their first products was the ARDS (Acquire Read Deploy Sight) for use on assault rifles equipped with an M203 or M320 under the barrel 40mm grenade launcher. The M320 already had available a detachable DNS electronic sight. While the DNS was an improvement over the original iron sight, there were several obvious (to users) features missing. ARDS provided what DNS lacked and users wanted. ARDS sight enables the user to select model of grenade launcher as well as ammo type (illumination, smoke or explosive). ARDS contains a microprocessor and sensors similar to those found in smartphones or smartwatches. This enables to ARDS to sense positioning of the grenade launcher and calculate how far the grenade will go and where it will land. A small LCD tells you how far away the shell will land based on how you are holding the rifle mounting the M203 or M320. A handheld laser range finder is used to get the range to target. ARDS can be demonstrated on a firing range to first time users, who are convinced once they see their first ARDS directed grenade land on the target. ARDS was introduced in 2019 and within a year SOCOM (Special Operations Command) had ordered a thousand.
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30th October 2020
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Today is the 50th anniversary of Congressional passage of the Rail Passenger Service Act, which created the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, later known as Amtrak. This law was based on several factual errors, the most important one being a claim that passenger trains could make money if only they were freed from the stodgy railroad executives who supposedly preferred freight over passenger service.
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30th October 2020
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Good luck with that.
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27th October 2020
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27th October 2020
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Let’s consider some history. Prior to his arrival in the Senate, senators were generally reluctant to openly oppose judicial nominees on ideological grounds, but Schumer worked to change that. He enthusiastically supported a blockade of Bush appellate nominees and rejected President Bush’s appeal for a presumptive confirmation schedule.
Once Republicans retook the Senate, Schumer pushed for the repeated filibusters of President Bush’s nominees and, even after the “Gang of 14” deal, continued in his attempts to use this obstructionist tactic.
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26th October 2020
California’s dire coronavirus prediction was wrong, hospitalizations went down instead
Curfew imposed in El Paso County in Texas as all hospitals and ICUs hit 100% capacity
The Cult Of The Brave New Normal
Chinese Authorities Scramble To Suppress Biggest COVID-19 Outbreak In Months
Watch: Furious Welshman Tears Down Sheeting Off “Non-Essential” Goods In COVID-Lockdown Protest “Welshman’? The guy is obviously black.
The non-linearity of Covid-19 response
AstraZeneca Says Its COVID-19 Vaccine Produces Robust Immune Response In Elderly Patients
“Remdesivir for COVID-19” Study accidentally proved effectiveness of Hydroxychloroquine Shhhh! We aren’t allowed to talk about hydroxycholorquine!
Rockefeller Foundation Offers $1 Billion for Coronavirus Recovery
Health Expert: Mask Wearing Will Remain Mandatory Even After A COVID Vaccine Be ready for pushback on that.
Iconic Barbershop In NYC’s East Village Closes After 73 Years In Business Due To COVID
YouTube, Vimeo Remove Conservative Entrepreneur’s COVID-19 Video
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26th October 2020
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“We are in a bit of a race right now,” with China and Russia on developing the technology, Mark Lewis, acting deputy undersecretary of Defense for research and engineering (and director of defense research and engineering for modernization,) told reporters on a Monday call.
One of the models the DoD has looked at in developing the new consortium is the Chinese government’s, which works closely with its universities on hypersonic weapons programs. Lewis said they have noted that “China will integrate their students working on their various projects.”
Universities in the US, Australia, the UK and Canada are eligible to work on the DoD program, said Gillian Bussey, head of the Joint Hypersonic Transition Office. But Bussey added Texas A&M has strict counterintelligence protocols in place, and the Pentagon will have strict rules for who can participate in the often classified work. The team in particular wants to ensure “we’re not training Chinese scientists that are going to go help their programs for example.”
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25th October 2020
‘Learn to live with the pandemic’: Physicians warn that a vaccine may not prevent Covid from becoming endemic It will eventually disappear, just like SARS-1.
CDC had contentious plan for flight filled with COVID-exposed cruise passengers
First-time buyers fuel pandemic-related surge in gun sales (CNN) I suggest it’s more related to left-wing riots.
Polar bear research on hold in Western Hudson Bay due to COVID-19 restrictions
Sweden Refuses To Impose New Lockdown Measures, Saying People Have Suffered Enough I’d move to Sweden if it weren’t so overrun by violent Muslim immigrants.
The false promise of herd immunity for Covid-19
NYC Hotel Occupancy Rate Crashes Toward 10% As Permanent Closures Loom
Welsh People Blocked From Buying “Non-Essential” Items Due To Lockdown
Tennessee Titans Fined $350,000 For Coronavirus Violations
Italians Rise Up Against “Health Dictatorship” As Country Moves Toward New Lockdown
Bethany Mandel: Your Home Is No Longer Your Castle
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24th October 2020
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“I don’t know why anyone in the great state of South Carolina would ever vote for Lindsey Graham,” Dobbs said. “It is just outrageous. This is a guy who keeps saying ‘stay tuned.’ He said he would get to the bottom of Obamagate with the Judiciary Committee, which has been a year and a half, actually longer, of absolute inert response to these pressing issues of our day.”
Apparently, without his former job as John McCain’s Sancho Panza, Graham doesn’t do a lot.
Maybe Mitt Romney has some openings.
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23rd October 2020
Stop wiping down groceries and focus on bigger risks, say experts on coronavirus transmission
CNN destroys coronavirus research showcased on Tucker Carlson’s show (Washington Post)
Hormel is giving away bacon-scented face masks so you can smell bacon everywhere you go
Apple updates its COVID-19 app with new testing and symptom screening questions I monetize your insecurity! Hah!
Permanently remote workers seen doubling in 2021 due to pandemic productivity There’s nothing like ‘shaking the box’ to reveal what is needed and not from current ways of doing things.
“Alexander the Grate” on living in the “interstices of the infrastructure” Not noticeably different than being ‘homeless’ any other time.
World Reports Record Jump In COVID-19 Cases As Outbreak Explodes Across Europe, Midwest: Live Updates
Sovereign Wealth Funds Forestall Real-Estate Investments As COVID-19 Pandemic Bites
Fossella: Improve Contact Tracing First to Save Lives, Taxpayer Money AAUGH! CORONAVIRUS COOTIES! RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!
FDA Finally Allows AstraZeneca To Restart US COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app is leaving some unable to access government self-isolation grants And of course nothing is so important than those government handouts….
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23rd October 2020
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22nd October 2020
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I had a fairly irritating experience this week which is yet to be resolved. I purchased a set of carbon fiber wheel rims in order to build a new set of wheels for my new bike. The rims and hubs turned out to be incompatible, so I had to return both, the hubs to my local bike shop, the rims to a shop in Colorado. Concerned about getting the rims back to the dealer I shipped them via USPS Priority Mail last Thursday. The charges were $35 for the service and an additional $30 for insurance on the rims which have a cost of $975 each. They were supposed to be delivered on Monday according to the tracking notice, but they have been posting expected arrival dates as one day beyond the actual expected date, so I thought that they would arrive on Saturday.
According to the tracking, they left my local post office for a more centralized office a bit north of here. Apparently, they stayed in that office until Monday when they finally shipped to Colorado. I received a notice on Monday night that they would not arrive on time. Boy! Was I surprised! The notice did not change on Tuesday or Wednesday. Nothing updated. It took some searching but I was able to find a Customer Service site and filled in the form. Very surprisingly I got a call back that afternoon from a representative.
What I was told is that due to Covid (which has pretty much become the standard excuse for every possible demonstration of incompetence) the postal service was understaffed and buried in excess mail. They are flying fewer planes, so my package for which I paid premium rates was “likely” shipped via truck. No refund was offered for the demotion in service, and no date for its arrival.
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22nd October 2020
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And worth every penny.
The only thing that saves us is that we don’t get all the government we pay for.
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21st October 2020
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“Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity; that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.”
Don’t thin of it as sellling out; think of it as buying in.
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20th October 2020
AP Poll: American Trust in COVID-19 Information Plummets
Meet the disease detectives fighting to understand COVID-19
It’s Time to Talk About Covid-19 and Surfaces Again Because you have nothing else to do than obsess about what is panicking the Crust.
Ireland Imposes New Fines For Violating Europe’s Most Restrictive Lockdown: Live Updates Moderation has never been an Irish value.
CDC Recommends Masks on Planes, Trains, Buses Be the first on your block to come up with a new ridiculous place to wear your slave mask! (In the shower!)
A Mechanist’s Guide to the Coronavirus Genome More than you ever wanted to know.
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18th October 2020
Some U.S. doctors flee to New Zealand where the coronavirus outbreak is under control and science is respected (CNBC)
How the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally may have spread coronavirus across the Upper Midwest (Washington Post) ‘may have’
The Chinese Lockdown-and-Mask Model Failed. Now Its Proponents Need Scapegoats
UK Bans Sex For At-Risk Couples
Pfizer Vaccine Timeline
And yet the American trial remains suspended
The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights
Tocqueville: Arrested for Brunching with Friends? Life in France in 2020.
Europe’s Daily COVID-19 Tally Hits 200k/Day As World Nears 40 Millionth Case: Live Updates (Reminder: cases are not hospitalizations are not deaths.)
‘Masks Work? NO’: Twitter Removes Anti-Mask Tweet From Trump Coronavirus Adviser
Twitter Silences Top Trump COVID Task Force Expert You WILL NOT contradict the narrative.
Coronavirus timeline
The never-ending lockdown cycle
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