"Californians sought relief on Friday from the first day of a punishing heat wave expected to last through the Labor Day weekend, bringing temperatures of up to 125 degrees Fahrenheit (49 Celsius) and raising the risk of wildfires and rolling blackouts."
"A Russian TV crew flying over the Siberian tundra this summer spotted a massive crater 30 meters (100 feet) deep and 20 meters wide -- striking in its size, symmetry and the explosive force of nature that it must have taken to have created it."
"A group of drugmakers competing to bring a coronavirus vaccine to market plan to issue a public statement as soon as next week that says they will not seek government approval until enough data has been collected to ensure the drugs are safe and effective, CNBC confirmed Saturday." Because you can trust Big Pharma to look out for your health. There aren't enough eye-rolls for this.
"Labor Day this weekend is among one of the first challenges of the fall for Americans. Epidemiologists are concerned it might set the stage for another surge in cases — similar to the jump in U.S. cases following Memorial Day and Fourth of July holidays. The nation is heading into the holiday weekend with roughly 40,000 new Covid-19 cases a day, twice the number of daily cases from last spring, and with more businesses, events and activities reopened than before."
"The vast majority of the thousands of Black Lives Matter protests this summer have been peaceful, with more than 93% involving no serious harm to people or damage to property, according to a new report tracking political violence in the United States… But the US government has taken a 'heavy-handed approach' to the demonstrations, with authorities using force “more often than not” when they are present, the report found… And there has been a troubling trend of violence and armed intimidation by individual actors, including dozens of car-ramming attacks targeting demonstrators across the country." Funny, that.
The problem… "US President Donald Trump has ordered federal agencies to stop racial sensitivity training, labelling it 'divisive, anti-American propaganda'… A memo to government agencies says it has come to his attention that millions of dollars of taxpayers' money have funded such 'trainings'… The document says these sessions only foster resentment in the workforce."
Best economy ever, eh? "Interest rates are likely to stay low for years as the economy fights its way back from the coronavirus pandemic, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said in remarks published Friday afternoon… 'We think that the economy’s going to need low interest rates, which support economic activity, for an extended period of time,' Powell told NPR in an interview after the nonfarm payrolls report was released earlier in the day. 'It will be measured in years.'"
"Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the unlikely challenger to Belarus' five-term president, takes issue with being called an opposition leader… 'OK, first of all, if you don't mind, would you please not call us 'opposition'? Because we are not the opposition anymore, we are the majority,' she told NPR in an interview from her exile in Lithuania."
"Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has urged the UN to help halt the authorities' crackdown on protesters… On Friday police in Minsk arrested five university students who were in a group singing a protest anthem from Les Miserables."
"President Donald Trump has refused to condemn Russia over the poisoning of opposition figure Alexei Navalny, saying he has not seen proof… He said the case was 'tragic' but urged reporters to focus instead on China, which he said was a bigger threat to the world than Russia." For there being no collusion, the president sure acts like there is.
Nothing to see here citizen… "U.S. Postal Service police barred Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz from entering two mail sorting facilities in Florida in the early morning hours on Friday, threatening to escort her from the property if she didn't leave… The Florida Democrat, who sits on the House Oversight Committee, said she aimed to inspect a mail plant in Opa-locka and Northwest Miami-Dade. Wasserman Schultz said union members told her about conditions at the processing centers and shared pictures that showed pallets of undelivered mail marked with a receipt date of 'July 23.'"
Meanwhile, on Bullshit Mountain… "Reporters who were able to ask questions at Joe Biden's press conference Friday were torn apart by critics for failing to properly grill the Democratic presidential candidate."
"President Donald Trump suggested to his supporters on Friday night that if they vote by mail they should also attempt to vote in person as a way to check that their vote is counted, which risks causing chaos at the polls and undermining confidence in the election." Absentee voting isn't tallied until after the close of polls. And I don't think anyone has leavers for voting anymore.
"Publicly available data from North Carolina, Florida and Pennsylvania shows that of the mail ballots requested so far, significantly more requests have been made by registered Democrats than Republicans. An estimate of party registration in Ohio by the political data firm TargetSmart shows similar results, while Democrats and Republicans are neck-and-neck in Wisconsin. The only battleground state where the GOP had more ballot requests was Michigan."
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