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damn him. just damn him
Trump suggests Obama and Biden, but not Roger Stone, should be facing prison terms
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@WHO, in a CHANGE from previous thinking, suggests coronavirus can spread through the AIR!!...
It is NOT just the larger droplets, but now WHO says possible it is the aerosol that is the the problem. 
WHO: Indoor airborne spread of coronavirus possible
https://apnews.com/648feb226473f9841920abd6ffb004c7
LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization is acknowledging the possibility that COVID-19 might be spread in the air under certain conditions — after more than 200 scientists urged the agency to do so.
In an open letter published this week in a journal, two scientists from Australia and the U.S. wrote that studies have shown “beyond any reasonable doubt that viruses are released during exhalation, talking and coughing in microdroplets small enough to remain aloft in the air.”
The researchers, along with more than 200 others, appealed for national and international authorities, including WHO, to adopt more stringent protective measures.
WHO has long dismissed the possibility that the coronavirus is spread in the air except for certain risky medical procedures, such as when patients are first put on breathing machines.
In a change to its previous thinking, WHO noted on Thursday that studies evaluating COVID-19 outbreaks in restaurants, choir practices and fitness classes suggested the virus might have been spread in the air.
Airborne spread “particularly in specific indoor locations, such as crowded and inadequately ventilated spaces over a prolonged period of time with infected persons cannot be ruled out,” WHO said.
Still, officials also pointed out that other modes of transmission — like contaminated surfaces or close contacts between people in such indoor environments — might also have explained the disease’s spread.
WHO’s stance also recognized the importance of people spreading COVID-19 without symptoms, a phenomenon the organization has long downplayed. ............................................
https://apnews.com/648feb226473f9841920abd6ffb004c7
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FILE - In this Friday, June 26, 2020 file photo, people wear masks while exercising at a gym in Los Angeles. On Thursday, July 9, 2020, the World Health Organization is acknowledging the possibility that COVID-19 might be spread in the air under certain conditions — after more than 200 scientists urged the agency to do so. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Letter from 239 scientists: "Time to Address Airborne Transmission of COVID-19"
Bottomline: Time to guard against inhalation of microdroplets -- small droplets that don't fall to the ground within 6ft but travel longer distances and remain suspended in air.
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We know viruses are released during exhalation, talking, and coughing in microdroplets.
Studies of SARS-CoV-1 points to airborne route; every reason to expect that SARS-CoV-2 behaves similarly.
Avoid overcrowding and provide ventilation!
Letter: https://bit.ly/31R7VHE
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#Goyaway: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Julin Castro lead calls to boycott Goya Foods after CEO's prais
Source: USA Today
#Goyaway: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Julián Castro lead calls to boycott Goya Foods after CEO's praise for Donald Trump
Jessica Flores, USA TODAY 5 hrs ago
The CEO of Goya Foods, which bills itself as the country's largest Hispanic-owned food company, praised President Donald Trump during a visit to the White House on Thursday.
Social backlash followed.
The hashtags #Goyaway and #BoycottGoya soon began trending on Twitter, while some Latinos also expressed disappointment with the CEO's praise for a president who they say continuously attacks Latinos.
"We're all truly blessed at the same time to have a leader like President Trump, who is a builder," CEO Robert Unanue said during a speech after a roundtable with Trump and other Hispanic leaders.
Unanue is "praising a president who villainizes and maliciously attacks Latinos for political gain," Julián Castro, who served as Housing and Urban Development secretary in the Obama administration, said on Twitter.
"Oh look, it's the sound of me Googling 'how to make your own Adobo,'" U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Twitter, later sharing an alternative recipe to the Adobo seasoning, which is part of the Goya brand – a well-known Latino household item..................................
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/goyaway-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-juli%C3%A1n-castro-lead-calls-to-boycott-goya-foods-after-ceo-s-praise-for-donald-trump/ar-BB16yVQH?ocid=ob-tw-enus-677
https://twitter.com/JulianCastro/status/1281349684754370561?s=20
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1281383352315125762?s=20
a man wearing a suit and tie: Goya Foods CEO and President Bob Unanue speaks prior to US President Donald Trump signing an Executive Order on the White House Hispanic Prosperity Initiative in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 9, 2020. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) ORG XMIT: Trump hol ORIG FILE ID: AFP_1UW9XR © JIM WATSON, AFP via Getty Images Goya Foods CEO and President Bob Unanue speaks prior to US President Donald Trump signing an Executive Order on the White House Hispanic Prosperity Initiative in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 9, 2020. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) ORG XMIT: Trump hol ORIG FILE ID: AFP_1UW9XR
Fact check: Minnesota governor, not Trump, called out the National Guard
I saw a clip of trump LYING and bragging on Fox @SeanHannity show---call in--that he stopped the violence immediately once the guard came in................ Trump has told this LIE over and over and each time it gets bigger and bigger like a fish tale.
It is part of his LAW AND ORDER CAMPAIGN
[Fact check: Minnesota governor, not Trump, called out the National Guard
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/politics/fact-check-trump-walz-minnesota-national-guard/index.html
By Daniel Dale, CNN Updated 8:45 AM ET, Wed July 1, 2020
Washington (CNN)Campaigning as the candidate of "law and order," President Donald Trump keeps claiming that he is the one who got the National Guard deployed to deal with rioting in Minnesota.
According to Trump and his team, Trump made the Guard deployment happen over the objections of the state's Democratic leaders.
"I brought it out five days after they started. They wouldn't use the National Guard. I brought the National Guard to -- I told them, I said, 'You got to get the National Guard.' We got them in. Everything stopped in Minneapolis. It was really an amazing thing, actually, to see, and they had no problems after we called out the Guard," Trump said in an interview with Nexstar on June 17.
"Forced Democrat run Minnesota to bring in the National Guard & end rioting & looting after seeing the destruction & crime in Minneapolis," he tweeted on June 19.
CNN holds elected officials and candidates accountable by pointing out what's true and what's not.
Here's a look at our recent fact checks.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany made a similar claim at her official briefing on Monday, casting specific blame upon Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
"Minnesota's Democrat governor failed to urgently deploy the National Guard -- it took President Trump for that to eventually happen; his suggestion -- and the ultimate descendance into chaos there in Minneapolis," McEnany said.
Facts First: Walz, not Trump, was the one who deployed the Minnesota National Guard; Walz first activated the Guard on May 28, more than seven hours before Trump publicly threatened to deploy the Guard himself. Walz's office says the governor activated the Guard in response to requests from officials in Minneapolis and St. Paul -- cities also run by Democrats. And it's not true that there were "five days" of unrest before Walz called out the Guard; violent protests began two days prior to Walz's decision.
It is theoretically possible that pressure from Trump contributed to a Walz decision to activate the entire Minnesota National Guard on May 30, two days after his initial activation of a smaller number of Guard troops. But no evidence has emerged to prove that was the case, and Walz's office says Trump had nothing to do with either of the governor's decisions. ...................
Dr. Anthony Fauci: Florida reopened too fast, jumping 'over a couple of checkpoints'
Source: South Florida Sun Sentinel
Jul 09, 2020 at 7:19 PM
Florida on Thursday crossed the 4,000-death threshold for the pandemic and logged the most deaths in a 24-hour period: 120. The state also drew the criticism of the nation’s top infectious disease expert.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, called out Florida for bypassing guidelines and opening too soon. “Certainly Florida,” he said, in an interview with the FiveThirtyEight podcast on Thursday, “jumped over a couple of checkpoints.”
Fauci also told the Wall Street Journal that states experiencing spikes in cases and deaths like Florida should consider lockdowns again. “I think any state that is having a serious problem, that state should seriously look at shutting down,” he said.
The state’s one-day death toll high on Thursday is likely a sign of a rise in coronavirus deaths in the days to come, says Dr. Jay Wolfson, Professor of Public Health, Medicine and Pharmacy at the University of South Florida. “It’s going to get worse,” he said.
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This week also has been Florida’s deadliest so far. During the first five days of this week (Sunday through Thursday), the state reported 307 new deaths, which is a high for deaths reported during the same period throughout the pandemic...............................................................
Read more: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus/fl-ne-florida-coronavirus-cases-deaths-thursday-july-9-20200709-6w6t7xksvjgz7msqzpwtyzfymu-story.html
https://twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/1281408605074477058?s=20
https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1281405395836248065?s=20
https://twitter.com/stonecold2050/status/1281347147703545857?s=20
Nadler suggests BARR is perilously close to criminal bribery in his handling of BERMAN matter
Barr is due to testify at the end of the. I wonder if he will show up.
JUST IN: Nadler suggests BARR is perilously close to criminal bribery in his handling of BERMAN matter.
"What we don't know yet is if the attorney general's conduct is criminal. But that kind of quid pro quo is awfully close to bribery."
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1281309344366301184?s=20
NADLER emphasized that Barr kept attempting to entice Berman to leave with promise of a resume booster even after Berman refused him.
"We will certainly have a lot to discuss with Mr. Barr when we see him in a few weeks."
NEW: Geoff BERMAN told Congress today that BARR repeatedly pushed him to resign — starting with a June 18 meeting at a NY hotel and ending with a phone call that night.
He refused and Barr announced his resignation anyway
BERMAN's opening statement: https://politico.com/f/?id=00000173
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1281273016983437312?s=20
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1281273463882354688?s=20
Berman provided meticulous detail abotu his interactions with Barr, from the precise minutes of phone calls to the description of their June 18 hotel meeting.
"There were sandwiches
on the table, but nobody ate."
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As an aside, I can't think of a better "Write a tragedy in 9 words or less" than:
"There were sandwiches on the table, but nobody ate."
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MORE from Berman on the pressure he faced from Barr:
"The Attorney General said that if I did not resign from my position I would be fired. He added that getting fired from my job would not be good for my resume or future job prospects."
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REMINDER: Barr is slated to testify to the Judiciary Committee on July 28. This will be atop the lengthy list of subjects the panel wants to grill him on.
Micheal Cohen taken into custody..
no explanation
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1281288272602451975?s=20
Sekulow: "We are pleased that in decisions issued today, the Supreme Court has temporarily blocked b
delay is Jay Sekulows tactic for now.
Sekulow: “We are pleased that in decisions issued today, the Supreme Court has temporarily blocked both Congress & New York prosecutors from obtaining the President’s financial records. We will now proceed to raise additional Constitutional and legal issues in the lower courts.”
https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1281244009600618497?s=20
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Special Report: Bolsonaro bets 'miraculous cure' for COVID-19 can save Brazil - and his life
Source: Reuters
July 8, 2020 / 5:06 PM / Updated 2 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has gone all in on hydroxychloroquine to help his coronavirus-ravaged country beat COVID-19. He has pushed his government to make the malaria drug widely available and encouraged Brazilians to take it, both to prevent the disease and to treat it.
Now the far-right populist is putting his convictions to the ultimate test: Bolsonaro on Tuesday announced that he had tested positive for the disease and was taking hydroxychloroquine.
Bolsonaro said in a televised interview that he had taken an initial two doses, in conjunction with the antibiotic azithromycin, and felt better almost immediately. His only regret, he said, was not using it sooner.
“If I had taken hydroxychloroquine preventively, I would still be working” instead of heading into quarantine, Bolsonaro said.
Later, in a separate video, he gulped down a third pill. He said he was aware of other treatments, but noted none of them had been proven to work.
“I trust in hydroxychloroquine,” he said. “And you?”
Bolsonaro’s illness is a potent symbol of his government’s botched response to the outbreak. More than 1.7 million people in Brazil have tested positive for coronavirus and nearly 68,000 have died. Only the United States has performed worse. ..................................
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-hydroxychlo/special-report-bolsonaro-bets-miraculous-cure-for-covid-19-can-save-brazil-and-his-life-idUSKBN249396
U.S. first lady Melania Trump statue set on fire in Slovenia
Source: Reuters
July 8, 2020 / 3:23 PM / Updated 2 hours ago
Brad Downey, a Berlin-based American artist, told Reuters he had the life-sized blackened, disfigured sculpture removed as soon as police informed him on July 5th of the incident.
“I want to know why they did it,” said Downey, who had hoped the statue would foster a dialogue about the political situation in the United States, highlighting Melania Trump’s status as an immigrant married to a president sworn to reduce immigration.
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Although the statue’s face was rough-hewn and unrecognizable prior to the fire, the figure was painted with a pale blue wraparound coat resembling the one Melania Trump wore at the swearing in of her husband U.S. President Donald Trump.
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In January, a large wooden statue resembling Donald Trump, designed by a local artist last year, was burnt in Slovenia’s city of Moravce, east of the capital Ljubljana.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-slovenia-melania-trump-sculpture/u-s-first-lady-melania-trump-statue-set-on-fire-in-slovenia-idUSKBN24933K
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1281050439710990337?s=20
ROZNO, Slovenia (Reuters) - A wooden sculpture of U.S. first lady Melania Trump was torched near her hometown of Sevnica, Slovenia, on the night of July Fourth, as Americans celebrated U.S. Independence Day, said the artist who commissioned the sculpture.
FILE PHOTO: A life-sized wooden sculpture of U.S. first lady Melania Trump is officially unveiled in Rozno, near her hometown of Sevnica, Slovenia, July 5, 2019. REUTERS/Borut Zivulovic TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY/File Photo
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