"Rocket Lab has returned to active launch status from its first launchpad in New Zealand, after the global COVID-19 pandemic temporarily paused its work there. Early this morning, it flew its 12th Electron launch vehicle from its launch site on NZ’s Mahia Peninsula, carrying payloads on behalf of the U.S. National Reconnaisance Office (NRO), NASA, and the University of New South Wales Canberra."
"We can no longer ignore the potential of psychedelic drugs to treat depression." An opinion piece, but worth it.
"A district of Beijing was on a “wartime” footing and the capital banned tourism on Saturday after a cluster of novel coronavirus infections centred (SIC) around a major wholesale market sparked fears of a new wave of COVID-19."
"White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Friday the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is not concerned about a second wave of coronavirus cases, the Wall Street Journal reported." That won't age well.
"'In the beginning, "everyone had the concern of getting infected,' Dr. Francis Castiller, medical director of critical care at UNC REX Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina, said. The new disease was spreading rapidly, before many ICUs were able to prepare for the surge or protect their staff appropriately." A little bit on what we've learned.
"States may need to reimplement the strict social distancing measures that were put in place earlier this year if U.S. coronavirus cases rise 'dramatically,' a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official said Friday." I'm willing to be wrong, but I doubt such orders would actually curb people from going out and I think we'd see a lot more businesses ignoring the rules.
"Police are searching for a shooter who opened fire after he was denied entry into a bar in San Antonio, wounding eight people, authorities said… The Friday night incident started when a group that included the shooter was denied entry into a bar because they were intoxicated, the police chief said."
"Rumors of marauding antifa buses have popped up on local social media networks all across the country, sometimes leading to direct, dangerous action by locals and police departments." Priming the well.
"A statue of Winston Churchill may have to be put in a museum to protect it if demonstrations continue, his granddaughter has said… It came after protesters daubed 'was a racist' on the statue last weekend." History can be a terrible awakening.
"Building ramparts of secrecy around a $600 billion-plus coronavirus aid program for small businesses, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin… told Congress at a hearing this week that the names of loan recipients and the amounts are 'proprietary information.' While he claimed the information is confidential, ethics advocates and some lawmakers see the move as an attempt to dodge accountability for how the money is spent." Going from "taxes are theft" to stealing our tax money. That information isn't "proprietary", and since it's the taxpayers' money, it can't be "confidential."
"Customs and Border Protection officials at the U.S.-Mexico border encountered more than 23,000 unauthorized migrants in May and swiftly expelled over 20,000 of them under an emergency directive by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to government statistics published on Friday. In April, the first full month of the public health order being in place, nearly 17,000 migrants were apprehended. Over 15,000 of them were expelled." Any stupid excuse.
The On the Media podcast with… "In fact, according to Candida Moss, Christian historians coined the idea that to be persecuted was to be righteous in the 4th Century and they exaggerated claims that Christians were persecuted in the first place. Moss is a professor of theology and religion at Birmingham University in the U.K., and author of The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom. Moss spoke to Bob just after Trump has announced his call for churches to open. In this week's Pod Extra she explains how Christian history has been revised for political means, from the early church to present day."
"President Donald Trump announced late Friday night that he is rescheduling a rally that was to be held on June 19 -- Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States -- 'out of respect for this holiday.'" He look, he can learn something. But the message was already sent, so it costs him nothing to reschedule.
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