Our very smart president

Classic examples of Trump being an idiot:

https://twitter.com/brooklynmutt/status/1286086421938397184

Ex-Obama Health Official Explains How The USA Could End The Epidemic Whenever It Wants In A Detailed Twitter Thread

Where there's a will there's a way. But there's not enough will with this administration:

https://www.boredpanda.com/usa-eliminate-covid-19-coronavirus-obama-health-official-andy-slavitt/

This is one absolute failure by Donald Trump that is actually good for the United States

Lots of cases of coal failing in the US:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/29/1964877/-Trump-is-still-digging-coal-he-s-digging-its-grave-as-the-industry-collapses-despite-deregulation

A bipartisan group secretly gathered to game out a contested Trump-Biden election. It wasn’t pretty

Well this is disturbing:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/25/nation/bipartisan-group-secretly-gathered-game-out-contested-trump-biden-election-it-wasnt-pretty/

Coronavirus shows how to get people to act on climate change – here’s the psychology

While light on solutions, this does summarize why many people ignore health and safety warnings:

https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-shows-how-to-get-people-to-act-on-climate-change-heres-the-psychology-143300

This should frighten you. One of most effective questioning of Trump you’ve ever seen

As a former soldier, I find it incomprehensible that the Commander in Chief of the armed forces would not even deign to LOOK INTO whether Russia is paying the Taliban bounties to kill American forces:

https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/status/1288444241765707781

Physicists Say There's a 90 Percent Chance Civilization Will Soon Collapse

Just in case you've forgotten about the climate change and other environmental tsunamis heading for us:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/physicists-90-percent-chance-civilization-collapse

'White supremacists' arrested while trying to amplify protest violence, Richmond mayor says

Useful to point out when conservatives claim the left is causing the violence:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/27/1964268/--White-supremacists-arrested-while-trying-to-amplify-protest-violence-Richmond-mayor-says

GOP Climate Change Denial Set The Stage For Trump’s Coronavirus Conspiracies

This is at the core of why I no longer have any respect for the Republican party:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/climate-change-coronavirus-skepticism_n_5f1cf0b0c5b6945e6e3b7e37

UN issues warning to US authorities as Black Lives Matter protesters continue to face off against police

The Trump administration is behaving like such an authoritarian regime that the UN has to condemn us:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-24/un-issues-warning-to-us-authorities-over-black-lives-matter/12491624

Failure

Another brilliant ad by The Lincoln Project, using only Trump's words and a graph to show what an incompetent boob he is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uLJkpH__os&feature=youtu.be

How bad will a Trump loss be for the Republican Party and for how long will the damage last? Is it possible that Trump could spell the end of the modern Republican Party?

This is a good summary of the mess the G.O.P. has become:

https://www.quora.com/How-bad-will-a-Trump-loss-be-for-the-Republican-Party-and-for-how-long-will-the-damage-last-Is-it-possible-that-Trump-could-spell-the-end-of-the-modern-Republican-Party/answer/Glenn-R-Anderson?ch=99&share=10442a18&srid=uBhZO

Barbara Walter was done with Donald's BS in 1990

More people need to call him out.

https://twitter.com/BLONDIE_007_/status/1285722487486132225

The pandemic shows that the future of aid is cash

A big opportunity for trying out a universal basic income:

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-future-0daff0af-290f-4e61-ad4f-2de0104ab315.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0

We Looked At How The Stock Market Performed Under Every U.S. President Since Truman — And The Results Will Surprise You

Well, no, I'm not surprised. The stock markets have done better under Democratic presidents than Republican:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/07/23/historical-stock-market-returns-under-every-us-president/amp/

What’s at stake if Trump gets to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

We SERIOUSLY need to evict the Tangerine Dumpster Fire from office:

https://www.vox.com/2020/7/21/21328863/supreme-court-trump-vacancy-ruth-bader-ginsburg-voting-rights-epa-police

I took a closer look at the cognitive test Trump claims to have aced

Just a reminder that Trump is an idiot:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/21/donald-trump-cognitive-test-closer-look

Chris Wallace pushes back on Trump's claim that Biden wants to defund the police

Chris Wallace is really stepping up his game, doing a better job than most reporters...and he works for Fox News!

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1284230837114986497

Siberian heatwave of 2020 almost impossible without climate change

Just scary:

https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/siberian-heatwave-of-2020-almost-impossible-without-climate-change/

Days after hospitals were told to stop sending information to CDC, all the fears appear justified

Controlling the flow of scientific information is the stuff of authoritarian regimes, not the US:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/16/1961226/-Hospitals-are-still-sending-in-data-on-COVID-19-but-it-s-no-longer-visible-outside-the-White-House

Federal Agents in Unmarked Minivans Detain Protestors in Portland, According to Reports

Armed men who don't identify themselves, nor do they have any identifying insignia on their clothing, kidnapping people off the street and shoving them into mini-vans to be taken away and interrogated. Anyone would be in their right to draw a gun on them and call the police:

https://time.com/5868087/portland-blm-protest-federal-law-enforcement-trump/

US allies once seemed cowed by China. Now they're responding with rare coordination

Good, I've never been happy with the idea of authoritarian China becoming the dominant superpower:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/world/china-world-coordinate-response-intl/index.html

Trolling Trump Isn’t The Same Thing As Beating Him

I'm a fan of The Lincoln Project, but they may not be swaying Republicans:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-lincoln-project-trolling-trump-beating-him_n_5f06ac20c5b6480493cb4967

Tucker Carlson vs. Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson is a tool:

https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/1280688146448109568?ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.patheos.com%2Fblogs%2Fprogressivesecularhumanist%2F2020%2F07%2Ftucker-carlson-claims-mask-wearing-has-no-basis-in-science%2F&fbclid=IwAR1h3tMq2Suif3yvNkZqkqSgCEnMKZW3klJvX3zRUyCcbtWcNv9kE6XXJls

How can a disease with 1% mortality rate shut down the United States

Because mortality is only a small part of the total damage the disease causes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/comments/hq26fb/what_1_really_means/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

President Hillary Clinton announces that every case of COVID-19 has now been traced to its source

How things might have been:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/8/1959169/-President-Hillary-Clinton-announces-that-every-case-of-COVID-19-has-now-been-traced-to-its-source

Vermont Is First State To Ban Throwing Food Scraps Into The Trash

This is an excellent idea:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vermont-food-scrap-ban_n_5f060a24c5b67a80bc01dc44

Fighting the coronavirus "infodemic"

A good summary of why conservatives believe so many wrong things about this pandemic: 

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-future-c4efada4-b267-40e9-9f17-bf0b4434f6a9.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0

Sweden Has Become the World’s Cautionary Tale

Conservatives loved Sweden's approach. Now the chickens are coming home to roost:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/sweden-economy-coronavirus.html

Trump Administration Formally Notifies U.N. of Withdrawal From World Health Organization

That's about as smart as getting rid of the only fire department while a fire is still raging because the fire engine arrived a little later than it should:

https://time.com/5863883/us-withdrawal-world-health-organization-trump/

Donald Trump rushed to reopen America – now Covid is closing in on him

Trump has fucked over this country, and it's about to bite him and the Republicans in the ass:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/05/donald-trump-reopen-america-covid-19-coronavirus

How Trump Could Lose the Election—And Still Remain President

This is creepy. The best way to avoid this disaster is to spread the word so everyone is familiar with it and will recognize it as it happens:

https://www.newsweek.com/how-trump-could-lose-election-still-remain-president-opinion-1513975

Warning: The world won't hit climate goals unless energy innovation is rapidly accelerated

This pandemic mustn't serve as a distraction from this problem:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/business/climate-change-clean-energy-iea/index.html