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kpete's JournalBrad Parscale - Trump's Campaign Manager In Quarantine
“Donald Trump’s reelection campaign manager, Brad Parscale, is one of a group of campaign staffers in quasi-quarantine after he attended a rally in Oklahoma last weekend where eight campaign aides tested positive for the novel coronavirus,” the Daily Beast reports.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/brad-parscale-other-trump-staff-in-quasi-quarantine-after-tulsa-covid-cases
Robert Trump's lawsuit against Mary Trump's book was just dismissed by a judge
Robert Trump's lawsuit against Mary Trump's book was just dismissed by a judge, Mary's attorney
@BoutrousTed says: "The court has promptly and correctly held that it lacks jurisdiction to grant the Trump family's baseless request to suppress a book of utmost public importance."
Trump can try to refile elsewhere. Boutrous says "we hope this decision will end the matter. Democracy thrives on the free exchange of ideas, and neither this court nor any other has authority to violate the Constitution by imposing a prior restraint on core political speech."
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1276216887496581122?s=20
More Here:
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/judge-says-trump-clan-complained-to-the-wrong-court-by-asking-to-shut-down-publication-of-nieces-book/
We did it, America. We flattened the curve.
https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1276172320965636099?s=20
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NYC to paint 'Black Lives Matter' in front of Trump Tower
The city is planning to paint the words “Black Lives Matter” in bold letters right in front of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan.
“The president is a disgrace to the values we cherish in New York City,” Julia Arredondo, a spokeswoman for Mayor de Blasio, said in a statement. “He can’t run or deny the reality we are facing, and any time he wants to set foot in the place he claims is his hometown, he should be reminded Black Lives Matter.”
The famous rallying cry will be painted on Fifth Ave. between 56th and 57th streets, right in front of the president’s flagship high-rise, as well as Centre St. and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.
MORE:
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-black-lives-matter-trump-tower-20200624-6hspln2wcjbchjpwdlwfoqetnq-story.html
See that dip? That's everyone staying home to buy time for test-&-trace program that never happened
-because we elected a buffoon
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https://twitter.com/MattGoldberg/status/1275809080280481792?s=20
No Federal Leadership Leaves US Totally Screwed
As cases of the novel coronavirus in the U.S. continue to emerge, the outbreak is expected to "spread quickly" in at least 10 states, according to an analysis by the website Rt.live of each state's reproduction number (the "R number" ), the number of people that one infected person will pass the virus on to, on average.
The R number, officially called the basic reproduction number (R0) or the basic reproduction ratio/rate, is a metric used to describe the contagiousness of an infectious disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
When the R number of an outbreak in any given region is measured to be greater than one, the outbreak is expected to continue, while it is expected to end if the R number has a value of less than one, the CDC explains.
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"Values over 1 mean we should expect more cases in that area, values under 1 mean we should expect fewer," Rt.live explains.
https://twitter.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1275943762880069632?s=20
https://www.newsweek.com/us-coronavirus-transmission-rate-these-states-have-highest-r-number-1512777?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1593010493
We need Joe Biden. We need a mensch. From Rabbi Michael Beals of Delaware :
"The story I’m about to share with you about Joe Biden is special -- in fact, I’m fairly certain I’m the only living person left who actually witnessed it firsthand.
[1/12]
It was about 16 years ago, and I was a young rabbi, brand-new to Delaware, on my way to lead a shiva minyan -- a worship service following a death of a Jewish person. I was from California. Back then, I didn’t know Claymont, Delaware from Scranton, Pennsylvania.
[2/12]
Quick bit of background: When someone passes away in the Jewish faith, we observe seven days of mourning, called shiva. We gather a group of ten Jewish adults together to say the Mourners’ Kaddish. It usually happens in a person’s home -- somewhere intimate.
[3/12]
In this case, the deceased individual -- her name was Mrs. Greenhouse, of blessed memory -- had not been a person of means. She had lived in rent-controlled senior housing in a tall high-rise building off of Namaans Road.
[4/12]
Her apartment was too small to fit everyone into, so we conducted our worship service in the building’s communal laundry room, in the basement of the high-rise.
We assembled the 10 elders together, and it was in this most humble of places that I began to lead kaddish.
[5/12]
Toward the end of the service, a door at the back of the laundry room opened; who walks in but Sen. Joe Biden, head lowered, all by himself.
I nearly dropped my prayer book in shock.
Senator Biden stood quietly in the back of the room for the duration of the service.
[6/12]
At the close of the kaddish, I walked over to him and asked the same question that must have been on everyone else’s mind: “Sen. Biden -- what are you doing here?”
He said to me: “Back in 1972, when I first ran for Senate, Mrs. Greenhouse gave $18 to my first campaign.
[7/12]
Because that’s what she could afford. And every six years, when I’d run for reelection, she’d give another $18. She did it her whole life. I’m here to show my respect and gratitude.”
[8/12]
Now, the number 18 is significant in the Jewish faith -- its numbers spell out the Hebrew word chai, as in “to life, to life, l’chayim!” But it’s also a humble amount. Joe Biden knew that. And he respected that.
[9/12]
There were no news outlets at our service that day -- no Jewish reporters or important dignitaries. Just a few elderly mourners in a basement laundry room.
Joe Biden didn’t come to that service for political gain. He came to that service because he has character.
[10/12]
He came to that service because he’s a mensch.
And if we need anything right now when it comes to the leadership of our country -- we need a mensch.
I know this is such a simple, small story. But I tell it to as many people as will listen to me.
[11/12]
Because I think that, in their heart of hearts, when people are trying to think about the decision they’ll make this year -- this is the kind of story that matters.
Joe Biden is a mensch. We need a mensch."
Thank you, Rabbi Beals. You're a bit of a mensch yourself.
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