The Clusterbleep Caused By Trump’s ‘Executive Orders’. Unworkable, confusing, and, as usual, not even thought-out. I’m sure that seniors will catch on quickly when they understand that the plan could hurt Social Security and Medicare. Not to mention, his ‘orders’ are ‘absurdly unconstitutional’.
Bill Gates: America Has Worst Covid Testing In The World. Why?:
“You can’t get the federal government to improve the testing because they just want to say how great it is,” the Microsoft co-founder-turned-philanthropist said.
Outbreaks Inevitable At Reopened Schools. Even Trump officials know it, but don’t want to cross the boss. The children? They don’t matter, apparently.
Local Sheriffs: A Law Unto Themselves. An absolute must-read. An excerpt:
The American sheriff holds a peculiar office. Most of the country’s more than 3,000 sheriffs are elected and often not accountable to a county executive and thus have no real oversight beyond voters who typically keep reelecting them. (As of 2014, one-third of the sheriffs who had overseen the nation’s 200 largest jails had held office for 15 years or more.) In some jurisdictions, deputies make arrests. But their main job is running local jails and they have overseen vast expansions of the pretrial detention system. They often operate jails with near impunity; reports of abuse, negligence, and unchecked violence abound. Some big-city sheriffs oversee budgets of more than $1 billion. Amid calls for systemic shifts in policing and incarceration, sheriffs are now facing long-overdue scrutiny.
Sheriffs are bastions of racism and xenophobia. They are accountable to nobody.
The Blue Shift: An Election Trend. Not what you think. We’re talking about what happens between Election Night and when all the votes are counted:
It is not unreasonable to expect Trump’s Democratic opponent in 2020 to gain on Trump by over 20,000 votes in Pennsylvania during the period between Election Night and the final, official certification of the canvass. The key question is whether this kind of gain simply extends a lead that the Democratic candidate already has, comparable to what occurred in two statewide races in 2018. Or whether, instead, it cuts into a lead that Trump starts with on Election Night—and, if so, whether it is enough of a gain for Trump’s Democratic opponent to overcome Trump’s Election Night lead.
The explosion of mail-in voting could enormously magnify the blue shift. In the past, there’s been little correlation between mail-in ballots and the post–Election Day Democratic gain. But there is growing evidence, and concern among GOP strategists, that the president’s crusade against mail-in voting is discouraging Republicans from casting their ballots that way. If mailed ballots are disproportionately Democratic, and Republicans disproportionately vote on Election Day, then the blue shift could be huge—especially in states where officials are restricted from counting mailed ballots until Election Day, including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Florida.
Is This The Week That They Pull The Plug On College Football? I think so. Pretty much everybody but the P-5 conferences have already done so. Only reason they haven’t already pulled the plug? Money. Lots of it.
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