The Tooning Out Election 2020 panel welcomes CNN's Jim Sciutto for special coverage of RNC night two's speeches from Eric Trump and First Lady Melania.

A 17-year-old suspect has been arrested and charged with first-degree intentional homicide after two people were killed and another injured during the third night of protests for Jacob Blake in Kenosha, WI (WARNING: Distressing).

Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man, was shot in the back seven times by police and may never walk again. In protests after the shooting, a white gunmen killed two demonstrators while trying to “protect a business,” and wasn’t arrested till the next day. Another look at systemic police violence and racial injustice.


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A prominent critic of Vladimir Putin is poisoned, Louis DeJoy comes to Congress to answer for the U.S. Postal Service chaos, Jerry Falwell Jr. falls out of favor with Christian conservatives, and wildfires continue raging across California.


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CHARLOTTE (The Borowitz Report)—An outbreak hit the 2020 Republican National Convention this week as hundreds of attendees tested positive for delusion.

While public-health experts have yet to determine the extent of the outbreak, the episodes of attendees exhibiting magical thinking bordering on the hallucinatory appear to be widespread.

Davis Logsdon, who studies delusional epidemics at the University of Minnesota’s School of Medicine, said that multiple R.N.C. participants professed to see things “that are not actually there,” such as a strong economy, a successful coronavirus response, and an immigration policy brimming with kindness.

In another worrying symptom, Logsdon said that attendees who tested positive were unable to see things that were clearly in their line of vision. “One participant on Monday was shouting for more than six minutes despite the presence of a microphone inches away from her,” he said.

While scientists tried to get their arms around the extent of the outbreak, containing the spread of delusion at the R.N.C. will be “challenging,” Logsdon warned.

“The most successful treatment for delusion is facts, and these patients have built up an immunity to those over the course of many years,” he said.


Short article, no more at link: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/hundreds-of-rnc-attendees-test-positive-for-delusion



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Hey Milwaukee, I'm Really Sorry



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Jerry Falwell Jr.'s Link To Trump Is Far More Troubling Than His Sex Scandal



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With a family like this in charge, who needs facts?

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