There's battle lines being drawn.
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong.
Young people speaking their minds
getting so much resistance from behind

Monday, October 26, 2020

Linkee-poo Monday Oct 26

"Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is shutting off power for approximately 361,000 customers in Northern California on Sunday to help prevent sparking wildfires amid extreme weather conditions. The utility says the shutoffs are affecting customers across 36 counties as weather forecasts predict wind gusts over 70 mph in some areas combined with dry conditions."

"White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Sunday that the US is 'not going to control' the coronavirus pandemic, as cases surge across the country and nearly 225,000 Americans have died from the virus." Throwing in the towel. Of course they are. They vilified and politicized any of the measures that could actually help. To do anything they would have to admit they're wrong, and they won't do that, especially this close to an election. So we get the shrugged shoulders and "Whatchagonnado?" It's what happens when your worldview isn't predicated on reality.

Cooking the books in real time. "Since Tuesday, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Service’s coronavirus dashboard has posted a message that the total number of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 has been underreported since Oct. 17. The note blamed 'challenges entering data' to the portal used by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for collecting daily hospitalizations around the country."

"El Paso, Texas, is turning its convention center into a field hospital and asking residents to stay at home for two weeks after the city recorded a roughly 200 percent increase in Covid-19 hospitalizations in less than a month, officials said Sunday."

"Among the crowd was a group of armed Black men and women who call themselves the 'Not F**king Around Coalition' or NFAC. The group did not run toward the gunshots or break formation. Instead, they kneeled on the ground amid the confusion, and then walked away after their leader shouted, 'fall back! fall back!'"

"Armenia and Azerbaijan have accused each other of violating the latest ceasefire over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, minutes after it came into effect on Monday… The US-brokered ceasefire had been announced in Washington on Sunday… Two other ceasefires agreed earlier this month over the conflict were broken almost immediately."

"A man accused of abducting his two young daughters from a Kansas home where two boys were found dead was arrested on Sunday after a three-state search for the children, state officials said. The two girls were found safe and the father is being held in custody."

"LGBTQ Catholics and their allies in the U.S. welcomed Pope Francis’ endorsement of same-sex civil unions, the first time he’s done so as pontiff, while some prominent members including a bishop said Wednesday that he was blatantly contradicting church teaching."

"Judge Amy Coney Barrett is poised to become the ninth justice on the Supreme Court on Monday, solidifying a 6-3 conservative majority on the high court that Democrats warn could have lasting impacts on the nation's health care and rights for individuals."

"Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the supreme court has prompted former members of her secretive faith group, the People of Praise, to come forward and share stories about emotional trauma and – in at least one case – sexual abuse they claim to have suffered at the hands of members of the Christian group."

"A New York City police officer is suspended without pay after videos shared over social media Saturday night appeared to show him using his patrol vehicle's speaker to say 'Trump 2020.'"

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