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Here’s the current electoral map picture:  It’s a little confusing, since the color blue in the first map “approves of Trump,” while in the second map it means the exact opposite. But it’s still not too hard to sort out: Blue states really don’t like Trump. Red states like Trump. There are the edge-case states—states that…

Biden called on white people to imagine if “every time your husband or son, wife or daughter, you feared for their safety from bad actors and bad police. Imagine if you had to have that talk with your child about not asserting your rights, taking the abuse handed out to them so—so, just so—they could…

George Floyd Former Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin was taken into custody by investigators Friday in connection with the death of 46-year-old George Floyd. The announcement comes from John Harrington, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, who told the press that Chauvin was taken into custody but did not elaborate on any charges.  Floyd was arrested…

Trump started promoting hydroxychloroquine based on wildly insufficient studies with major methodological problems, but none of the evidence since has dented his belief in a drug he now claims to be taking himself. The study in veterans hospitals found “increased overall mortality” for people given hydroxychloroquine. Other studies have found no benefit. But in Trumpworld: “If you…

Charlagmagne had been pressing Biden on the report that Sen. Amy Klobuchar is being vetted as a possible vice presidential pick.  “I’m not acknowledging anybody who is being considered,” Biden responded. “But I guarantee you there are multiple black women being considered. Multiple.” At that point, the aide stepped in to end the interview. “You…

Among countries with more than 1,000 deaths, this is the world top-10 rankings that no one wants to be in: Country Deaths per 1 million population Belgium 795 Spain 598 Italy 537 UK 536 France 432 Sweden 389 Netherlands 338 Ireland 321 USA 292 Switzerland 220 Most countries on that list have gotten the pandemic…

The Smithfield lawyer’s confidence that the Trump administration would be on the company’s side has since been backed up by other reports, like a Senate Republican staffer saying that protecting companies from liability was in Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia’s “bailiwick,” and Deputy Labor Secretary Pat Pizzella playing coy. “All I can say is this issue…

The detained men say that Escobar Mejia, who died at a National City hospital on May 6, had been complaining to facility staff about not feeling well for as long as four weeks. ”Not until Mr. Escobar was so sick that he could not get up and was laying in his bunk after throwing up in his trash can…

While Trump says “I think you should absolutely open the schools,” 69% of Americans with kids say they are not ready to send them back to school, although 48% of Republicans are okay with that. Less than half of respondents are ready to get go back to church (46%) or eat in a restaurant (44%).…

Campaign Action As we recently noted, Miller had long been itching for a public health crisis as a pretext to implement more of his racist agenda—and he got his wish in COVID-19, “invoking a 1940s-era public health law” that the administration “believes allows border officials to bypass asylum, immigration and anti-trafficking laws” due to supposed pandemic…