Excellent edit! For those who prefer truth.

Biden re: Trump Commuting Roger Stone's Sentence-"ENOUGH"

Biden campaign reacts to President Trump commuting Roger Stone’s sentence, accusing Trump of abusing his power. Full statement from @BillR

President Trump has once again abused his power, releasing this commutation on a Friday night, hoping to yet again avoid scrutiny as he lays waste to the norms and the values that make our country a shining beacon to the rest of the world.

He will not be shamed.

He will only be stopped when Americans make their voice heard at the ballot box this fall.

Enough.

https://twitter.com/sarahmucha/status/1281750597562257410?s=20

Even the umbrella hates him.

4 kids and it is your actions that will leave them without their mom while you serve jail time.

It's becoming more and more personal

Yes, we have had some relatives in Washington with scares & yes I get pissed when people around me don't take this seriously.

But this week, we learned that my son is going to lose his house because he can no longer afford the mortgage. He will be looking to rent instead. So, yes that pisses me off a lot. Also he is in a high risk profession and he got a rather nasty letter from the husband of a good friend (he is a trumpster) stating that he did not need to fill out the required patient-info-form, because freedom.

We have been taking care of our grandchildren once a week so that my daughter-in-law can work in my son's office because they are down to a skeleton crew. He is getting tested every week because he qualified for a "high risk study" program. So far he is ok. I have been trying to get tested for a week & get the same recording every time that the site is being updated - So sorry they say.

Ok, so all that set me off. I am furious already but what really has me in tears, is my 8 year old granddaughter. She is washing her hands so often that she has developed a rash. If we go for a "social distancing" walk and she or any of us touch anything - SHE FREAKS OUT. Most of the time, I just cry - but now I am more angry than sad.

Excuse me for writing all of this down here. Usually, I try to stick to political stuff, but if I couldn't write it down somewhere - I would probably be calling my friend & telling her that her trumpster husband is a prick & worse. So you guys are helping me to vent.

thank you,
kpete

"The Consensual Hallucination Phase" Of The Pandemic

ANDERSON COOPER: . . . I want to bring in Scott Galloway was a professor at the NYU Tisch School. Professor Galloway, when you look at the landscape for the upcoming fall semester, universities are all over the map and what they're doing, whether it's full in person instruction online, full online learning, how do you see this playing out?

SCOTT GALLOWAY, PROFESSOR, NYU STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: So I think we're moving towards or I would say, we're exiting the consensual hallucination phase where we thought things would be somewhat back to normal. And right now you have a spectrum of Harvard going on online. Or a hybrid and then all the way to Purdue that still claiming they're going to welcome kids back to campus. A lot has changed, the curve, unfortunately has not been crushed much less flat and I think we're coming to the realization that there won't be any in-person classes.

I believe that over time, we will decide probably not to invite students to these small towns that I don't think are prepared for outbreaks. So I think slowly but surely we're headed towards a recognition that universities and academic institutions are the warriors against this virus. Not the spreaders or the enablers, and I think slowly but surely we're moving to an all online fall semester, Anderson

COOPER: Wow.

GUPTA: You've talked about Harvard going fully digital for their fall semester. And I know you say that the people are putting in their deposits now, paying their tuition and then are going to be told that they're going to be going digital, whatever it may be, but Harvard's classes, you actually compare it to Netflix, which is an association that I'm not sure any university wants to hear. What did you mean by that?

GALLOWAY: Well, somewhat snarky but there's some insight here. If you don't have the experience and you don't have in-person then, but effectively what you have is an institution that spends billions of dollars on content and then streams to you over broadband. And that looks, smells and feels somewhat similar to Netflix and Disney Plus, and we're charging you $120 a year and $80 a year. And now Harvard is effectively a streaming service charging $58,000 a year.

So a lot of the reason that universities have been so reticent to acknowledge that we're going fully digitally -- digital and fully online -- is a kind of- turns on this very ugly light that this 40 year party of academic institutions raising tuition and faster than inflation. The lights have come on, and it's pretty ugly in terms of the price value trade off. So I think a lot of us are coming to the recognition that, you know, universities become totally overpriced and a lot of families are now saying OK, I am not going to continue to engage in this trade off if I can have, if I'm only getting the certification, the education, not the experience, and unfortunately our industry is going to have to face the same economic pressures as every other industry and we haven't yet come to grips with that.

COOPER: I think I was in the hallucination phase when you first came on, Professor because I said you were with the Tisch School, I apologize. You're with the Stern School of Business at NYU. So I apologize for that.

GALLOWAY: No problem.

COOPER: Yes. But I love the phrase, by the way, the hallucination phase.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/09/se.01.html

TAKEI: "The virus is accelerating. Even someone with 1/100th of a brain should see that."

It took 95 days for us to reach 1,000,000 cases of Covid-19.

It took 43 days for us to reach 2 million cases.

It took 28 days for us to reach 3 million cases.

The virus is accelerating. Even someone with 1/100th of a brain should see that.

https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1281584488842240000?s=20

Ready for the Back to School Sale on ventilators?

...Hong Kong is closing all kindergartens, primary and secondary schools early, amid a new outbreak of Covid-19 infections in the city.

Summer holidays will begin early on Monday, authorities announced today, and there will be a review to decide if school can resume the new year as scheduled in August or September. Schools have been given the option of delaying tests planned for next week until later in the year.

There will be updated virus figures in a few hours, but in the past week Hong Kong has reported another 117 new confirmed cases.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/jul/10/coronavirus-live-news-global-update-cases-bolivia-president-covid-19-positive-south-africa-brazil-president-jair-bolsonaro-latest-updatescoronavirus-live-news-bolivia-president-tests-positive-as-south-africa-sees-record-case-rise?page=with:block-5f0810f68f08c7c20e569062#block-5f0810f68f08c7c20e569062

They don't care when kids are gunned down in school & they won't care when kids get Covid either.

Betsy Devos's Bookshelves Says Everything About Her