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Trump Presses Limits on Transgender Rights Over Supreme Court Ruling
The Trump administration is pressing forward with policies limiting
transgender rights. Many rules that have been in development for years have
now either been finalized or have gone into effect.
Trump and his supporters do not learn.
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Trump Wants Schools to Reopen. Americans Worry It’ll Happen Too Fast.
The president is insisting that schools reopen in the fall, but polls show
that Americans are gravely concerned about the prospect, setting up the
issue as a key question for November.
Until there is a significant permanently immune population it will be too soon to open any schools.
Teaching must continue without contact.
3
White Flight From Trump? What a Decisive Biden Win Would Look Like
Republican structural advantages in the House, the Senate and the Electoral
College would be in jeopardy.
Nate Cohn is a cautious observer.
4
China Orders U.S. to Shut Chengdu Consulate, Retaliating for Houston
The tit-for-tat consulate closures marked yet another round of rising
tensions between Washington and Beijing.
The Trump party does not do diplomacy.
5
A.O.C. Speech Unleashes Condemnation of Sexism in Congress
After a Republican lawmaker referred to Representative Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez using a sexist vulgarity, she took to the House floor to
denounce the abuse faced by women in Congress and across the nation.
Misogeny has no place in government.
A.O.C. has done a good thing.
I bought the house in Salem, New York.
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‘Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.’ Didn’t Mean What Trump Hoped It Did
The president said on Fox News that he had to remember those words as part
of a test that he said demonstrated his mental acuity. But the test, the
Montreal Cognitive Assessment, is meant to detect signs of dementia,
Alzheimer’s disease or other conditions.
I continue to doubt his words.
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Republican Stimulus Talks Stall Over Differences on Unemployment
Disputes over how to extend supplemental jobless benefits — and a White
House push for money for a new F.B.I. building — slowed efforts to agree to
an opening bid in negotiations with Democrats.
Trump and the Republicans will not get another chance.
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As Trump Calls for Schools to Fully Reopen, His Son’s School Says It Will Not
St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, the private school in the Maryland suburbs
attended by Barron Trump, said it was considering either a hybrid part-time
plan or going back to entirely online classes.
Schools take their responsibilities seriously.
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Trump Abruptly Cancels Republican Convention in Jacksonville: ‘It’s Not the Right Time’
After forcing the convention to move from Charlotte to Jacksonville because
he wanted a big celebration, President Trump called off the Florida
portion, citing the health risks from the coronavirus.
The Republican party does not want to remove the doubt about their minority status.
10
That Word
Few prominent women in power have publicly addressed a particular vulgarity
that men have leveled against them for years. Today, on the floor of the
House, that changed.
Canines make good mothers
They protect their den.
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Trump Moves to Roll Back Obama Program Addressing Housing Discrimination
The move coincides with efforts by the president’s re-election campaign to
shore up support among white suburban voters.
There are some who will applaud.
12
House Democrats Advance New Checks on Presidential Pardon Power
The measures face major political and constitutional hurdles, but amount to
the most substantial attempt by Congress in recent history to put
guardrails around such powers.
These Pardoned fellons are guilty of other unprosecuted crimes.
13
Rise in Unemployment Claims Signals an Economic Reversal
Job losses showed no letup as a surge in coronavirus cases forced new
business shutdowns and a $600 weekly federal benefit inched to its
expiration.
There is a large group who will suffer more soon.
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The Cadfael Mystery Novels
Recently I’ve been reading a fair bit of fiction, generally a book a day,
and for the last week and a bit it’s been the Brother Cadfael novels by
Ellis Peters. Cadfael’s a monk in southwestern England in the late 12th
century. He was a crusader before he made his vows, and as the monastery’s
[…]
I caught a few on PBS.
I did not appreciate the lack of mud in the production.
15
A Biden-Obama Reunion Video Pitches a Campaign as Comfort-Food TV
The polished video, business-casual and unsurprising, offered voters a show
that wouldn’t raise their blood pressure.
The lack of drama is a good thing.
Drama makes for bad law.
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No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public
For over a decade, the program, now tucked inside the Office of Naval
Intelligence, has discussed mysterious events in classified briefings.
Think horses, not zebras.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton%27s_law
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Here’s How Congress Might Replace the Extra $600 Weekly Jobless Benefit
Supplemental checks for laid-off workers are set to expire at month’s end.
Republicans and Democrats disagree on what to do next.
Drama makes bad law.
Intellectual property law has been misapplied.
Its object is more novelty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty
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A Hedge Fund Bailout Highlights How Regulators Ignored Big Risks
The Dodd-Frank financial law succeeded at making banks safer, but empowered
shadowy corners of finance that nearly wrecked the system in March.
A hedge fund collapse only looks like fun.
This rescue is more gentle than it should be.
Occasional insolvency is the price that should be asked for ambitious speculation.
Great wealth is only part of the world economy.
There are no external costs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
Why a democracy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger
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Barack Obama and Joe Biden Join Forces in Video Targeting Trump
The former president and vice president released a new video Thursday meant
to cast President Trump as unbefitting of the office, while trumpeting the
credentials of Mr. Biden.
This is a presidential campaign.
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Trump Sends In More Federal Agents
Chicago’s mayor cautiously agrees to receive help: This is your morning tip
sheet.
"President Trump announced yesterday that he would send hundreds more federal agents to Chicago and other American cities, significantly expanding the scope of a program that has been criticized by Democrats as borderline authoritarian."
The Mayors do not have the power to summon a police department that should not exist.
There is nothing boderline about this action. It is autocratic.
"Federal officers under the auspices of the Department of Homeland
Security have been clashing with protesters in Portland, Ore., since
last week, and yesterday the state’s attorney general argued in court for a restraining order to expel the federal agents from the city."
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