https://cookpolitical.com/ratings/senate-race-ratings
I just made a handful of donations based on this web page. I guess that’s a measure of how much I trust Cook.
Such ugliness. The McCloskeys have been suing people for years, including their own family.
One point of many:
«The former Trump deputy campaign chair Rick Gates testified at Stone’s trial in November 2019 that he witnessed Trump take a call from Stone after the first WikiLeaks release in July. Less than a minute after the call ended, Trump told Gates that another release would follow later in the campaign.»
Frum concludes:
«At every step in this story, the formula I’ve mentioned in previous essays continues to hold: “Many secrets. No mysteries.” Although crucial details remain concealed, the core narrative has been visible from the start. An American private citizen worked with foreign spies to damage one presidential candidate and help the other. That president accepted the help. When caught, the private citizen lied. When the private citizen was punished, the president commuted his sentence.
It’s all there: as bold as the spats on Roger Stone’s shoes, as ugly as the 130,000 Americans dead, and daily rising, because of the malign incompetence of the president assisted into the Oval Office by Stone, Manafort, and the Russian spy services.»
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1281209623186493440.html
This is part of what makes Twitter great when it’s not being terrible.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/sweden-economy-coronavirus.html
Boom.
«Sweden’s central bank expects its economy to contract by 4.5 percent this year, a revision from a previously expected gain of 1.3 percent. The unemployment rate jumped to 9 percent in May from 7.1 percent in March. “The overall damage to the economy means the recovery will be protracted, with unemployment remaining elevated,” Oxford Economics concluded in a recent research note.
This is more or less how damage caused by the pandemic has played out in Denmark, where the central bank expects that the economy will shrink 4.1 percent this year, and where joblessness has edged up to 5.6 percent in May from 4.1 percent in March.
In short, Sweden suffered a vastly higher death rate while failing to collect on the expected economic gains.»
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/white-evangelicals-black-lives-matter/613738/
Huh. I’m shocked shocked
«“The pro-life agenda is used as a weapon to shut down everything else, including race,”»
I can’t finish this article on what seems to be tortured enablers.
Ok. I’m as liberal as the next guy, but this just feels like some sort of victorious “stupid mom kills child” headline that I just don’t think is good, in the long run. It’s a tragedy, straight up. Mom lost her child (other loving ones lost their loved one) and child is dead. Why Raw Story needs to put this up as a headline instead of any of the other countless tragedies that are happening in our world is beyond me, really.
Defund the police. Also: subject every cop and ex-cop in the Norman area to DNA testing.
Here, Read This 