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Fauci: 'Bizarre' White House Behavior Only Hurts the President
Source: The Atlantic
Anthony Fauci isn’t about to quit, despite the White House’s clumsy attempts to stain his public image. More so now than at any other point in their uneasy partnership, it seems that if President Donald Trump wants to be rid of Fauci, he’ll need to fire him. In recent days especially, the White House has stepped up efforts to discredit Fauci, a move he describes as “bizarre.”
“Ultimately, it hurts the president to do that,” Fauci told The Atlantic in a series of interviews this week. “When the staff lets out something like that and the entire scientific and press community push back on it, it ultimately hurts the president.”
He described the White House attacks against him as “nonsense” and “completely wrong.” He also seemed dismayed that they are coming at a time when COVID-19 is surging across the country, deaths are once again rising, and Americans remain deeply confused about how to keep themselves and their loved ones safe.
Targeting Fauci seems like a tragic misuse of White House time and energy if officials’ aim is to defeat the coronavirus. But Trump appears more concerned with discrediting Fauci. Over the weekend, the White House sent multiple news outlets a document that smacked of opposition research. It carried a list of statements Fauci had made about COVID-19, purporting to show that he had contradicted himself about the outbreak and that he “has been wrong on things.” In one example from an NBC interview in February, the White House omitted Fauci’s full quote, giving the impression that he’d misjudged the outbreak’s danger. Peter Navarro, Trump’s top trade adviser, wrote an op-ed for USA Today yesterday claiming that Fauci has been “wrong about everything I have interacted with him on.” (A Trump communications aide tried to distance the White House from the op-ed this morning.)
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/trump-fauci-coronavirus-pandemic-oppo/614224/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Liberals got triggered by beans #EatingBeansToOwnTheLibs
https://twitter.com/BrentTerhune/status/1283437477487927299This bird dancing to alarm ringtones has more rythm than most of us
https://twitter.com/TheGallowBoob/status/1283135425717174278Edit: Darn, someone was manipulating the bird from behind (see post #2). At least we still have Snowball!
Nursing home residents re-create iconic album covers while in lockdown
Residents at Sydmar Lodge Care Home in Edgware, outside London, took photographs re-creating famous album covers, from makeup to the perfect pose. The re-creations cross genres and decades, including covers by David Bowie, Taylor Swift, Elvis Presley, Madonna and more.
The staff member who headed up the project, activities coordinator Robert Speker, told TODAY that he tries to keep his residents entertained with "topical" ideas and that they got on board with his plan "pretty quickly."
He wanted to achieve a mix of current and classic albums that were "well-known," he explained. After he'd chosen the albums, he then had to decide which artist best suited which resident.
"When I was matching the residents up, I had a quick think. Who would like to participate, and which would best suit them? Who wouldn’t mind having tattoos drawn on their arms or zigzags painted on their faces?" Speker said.
https://www.today.com/popculture/nursing-home-residents-re-create-iconic-album-covers-while-lockdown-t186592
Just in: @maddow to interview Mary Trump in her first cable appearance, Thursday at 9
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Naya Rivera: Why Glee's Santana was so important to young LGBT women
Millions of people watched Glee for the drama, the cover versions, the comedy - and the positive representation of a relationship between two LGBT women.
Naya played cheerleader Santana Lopez, who discovered she was a lesbian when she fell for her best friend, Brittany.
Her body was recovered from a lake in California after going missing last week while on a day out with her son.
Young LGBT women have been speaking to Radio 1 Newsbeat about the impact Santana and her storylines had on them as they watched the show in their early teens.
"I was 12 or 13, I was so young and I was thinking these things. I was so terrified to say them or ever act on them," 21-year-old Claire Rowden, who's bisexual, says.
"It was just a little knock on the door being like, 'hey, it's OK, what you're feeling is real, and it's special. It's not something to feel, ashamed or uncomfortable about'."
She describes Naya's performance as the gay cheerleader as "a breath of fresh air" at a time in her life when she was feeling "suffocated" coming to terms with her own sexuality.
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-53406664
Former Gov. Snyder denied qualified immunity in lawsuits for second time
After losing his qualified immunity appeal a few months ago, Snyder asked all appellate judges who sit on the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a three judge panel ruling earlier ruling. The request was denied Tuesday, July 14.
MLive-The Flint Journal could not immediately reach the Department of Attorney General, which represents state defendants in the case, for comment on the ruling. However, Theodore J. Leopold, a partner at Cohen Milstein and co-lead counsel in the Flint case, issued the following statement:
“We are pleased that the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit has again denied former Governor Snyder’s latest appeal in his constant attempts to avoid responsibility for his role in the Flint water disaster. Not only are we pleased with this latest ruling but we strongly feel that it is time for the former Governor and all of the State’s bad actors to be held accountable for their decisions that have caused so much anguish to the people of Flint.”
https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2020/07/former-gov-snyder-denied-qualified-immunity-in-lawsuits-for-second-time.html
Poland's Rulers Made Up a 'Rainbow Plague'
Source: The Atlantic
Rare is the election campaign that truly hinges on a single issue. But in the run-up to Sunday’s presidential election in Poland, “LGBT”—an English acronym that sounds strange and foreign in Polish—was unquestionably the dominant theme. The coronavirus pandemic is still ravaging the world, an economic crisis looms, and international politics are in turmoil. Yet when the Polish president, Andrzej Duda, declared that “LGBT are not people; they are an ideology”—and for that matter an ideology “even more destructive” than communism—the statement instantly became the most widely discussed moment of the campaign.
Duda has now been reelected, narrowly defeating Rafał Trzaskowski, who, as the mayor of Warsaw, signed a vague promise to provide greater support to the city’s gay community, including offering some anti-discrimination and anti-bullying education in schools. Duda and the ruling party, Law and Justice, said the mayor’s gesture amounted to the “sexualization of children” and the destruction of the family.
The president’s comments were then echoed and amplified by an anti-LGBTQ campaign on what used to be public television and is now ruling-party-controlled state television, paid for with taxpayers’ money. In parts of the country, state television is the only TV available, or the only TV many people can afford. In the last week of the campaign, state television ran items speculating on whether Trzaskowski would force LGBTQ education on all children, whether he would replace independence-day parades with gay-pride parades, whether Duda should push for a clause in the constitution banning gay marriage.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/polands-rulers-manufactured-a-rainbow-plague/614113/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=2020-07-14T05%3A00%3A13
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