Texas Medical Center removes ICU data as coronavirus cases spike
The Texas Medical Center stopped publishing information on intensive care unit capacities, after an earlier update showed its hospitals reaching 100% base capacity due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Houston Chronicle first reported on Sunday.
Driving the news: The TMC, comprising several hospitals and a health care research institution, reported last Thursday that all regular ICU beds were in use, KHOU 11 notes.
A TMC spokesperson told NBC News that officials were preparing to publish new data. "After the events of this week, everyone realized the capacity question was complicated and misunderstood," the spokesperson said. "So new slides are being made that better explain. That’s all it is."
Houston hospitals stop reporting COVID-19-related data after reaching base ICU capacity: report
Earlier reports had charts showing predicted changes in capacity and use. Overtopping could happen about July 6. The timing was such that plans could be implemented to convert rooms to ICU units suitable for coronavirus patients.
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Trump says 'bad things' happen with mail-in ballots, citing NJ case
Paterson City Councilman Michael Jackson, Councilman-Elect Alex Mendez, Shelim Khalique and Abu Razyen have been charged with criminal conduct involving mail-in ballots during the election.
The investigation began after the US Postal Inspection Service found hundreds of mail-in ballots in a mailbox in Paterson. Numerous additional ballots were found in another mailbox in nearby Haledon, according to a release from the attorney general. The May 12 elections in New Jersey were conducted by mail-in ballots due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Can Trump beat the Florida convention curse?
June 28
The first three, all held in Miami Beach, were marred by riots, major political miscalculations and the kind of odd behavior that has become the hallmark of everything connected with Florida. The last one, held eight years ago in Tampa, was even wilder, featuring mermaids, penguins, police spies, a tropical storm, a bizarre movie star interlude and some very disappointed strippers.
For one thing, the Black Lives Matter protests that swept the nation after George Floyd’s killing have raised questions about the convention’s timing. The day Trump will accept the nomination coincides with the 60th anniversary of Jacksonville’s infamous Ax Handle Saturday, a day in which hundreds of angry whites attacked African American civil rights protesters but the police arrested only Black people.
Trump deletes Villages tweet — Pence postpones Florida campaign events due to infection surge — A Sun Belt time bomb for Trump's re-election bid?
June 29
This is what he retweeted
RECKONING? — “She hasn’t charged a cop for a fatal shooting in 27 years. Amid protests, election nears,” by Miami Herald’s David Ovalle and David Smiley: “The statistic has been chanted at rallies, printed on fliers and posted on tweets: During 27 years in office, State Attorney Katherine Fernández Rundle has never charged a cop for a fatal shooting while on duty. Since 2016 alone — the year she was last reelected without opposition — 73 police shootings, fatal and non-fatal, have come up for review before her office. Fifty-four are closed. Eighteen remain open. Just one resulted in a criminal charge, a trial that ended in the misdemeanor conviction of a North Miami cop who shot at an autistic man holding a silver toy truck.”
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article243598022.html
https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1277607584246247425 BREAKING: The Supreme Court has upheld a key abortion rights decision — invalidating a Louisiana law that required doctors at clinics that perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.
Chief Justice Roberts joined the court’s four liberals.
Far-Right Group Pranked: 'Dude, Is This Like A Bad Impression Of Borat?'
Marshall, 36, is the founder and former leader of the Washington Three Percent, which is aligned with the far-right Patriot and militia movement. On Saturday, he was the emcee at a rally in Olympia called March for Our Rights 3, a gathering of "constitutionalist" factions that extremism trackers put in the anti-government category.
The event's disastrous ending — a racist singalong seemingly staged by prankster Sacha Baron Cohen — went viral over the weekend. The apparent infiltration was the latest salvo in the culture war, one of the endless "owns" of the other side. Leftists in Seattle trolled with glee; they've never bought into the militia makeover. The Western States Center, an Oregon-based watchdog that repeatedly has warned of the anti-government threat, said it had no information on the stunt, but "found it amusing."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjxrgCeliZ4 Sacha Baron Cohen Trolling at a Rally in Olympia
We had no idea we would opening for Sacha Baron Cohen today and get to witness some under cover trolling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9GrLPWmfQI Sacha Baron Cohen Trolls Olympia Washington 3% (Full Video + Reaction from Promoter)
Obama, what we gonna do
Inject him with the Wuhan Flu
Hillary Clinton, what we gonna do
Lock her up like we used to do
W H O, what we gonna do
Chop em up like the Saudi's do
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DEO Announces Changes on How to Backdate Unemployment Claims
June 25
The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity has announced changes for unemployed people looking to backdate their unemployment claims.
Back in May, the DEO made a web form available so claimants could modify their claim filing date.
This action came after people complained for weeks they could not submit applications online using the state’s online portal -CONNECT.
For years, Marshall has tried to convince his critics that he and the Three Percenters reject racist ideologies like white nationalism. So it was encouraging, he said, to learn of a California-based group, Back To Work USA, that was helping conservatives to get their message out in blue states.
The Man Whose Surveillance Camera Sparked a National Uprising
Rashad West went from hardworking teen to college athlete to restaurant owner by the age of 26. Then he singlehandedly proved that George Floyd was not resisting arrest.
June 29
His landlord encouraged him to check the security surveillance camera. The footage showed an extremely distressed but consistently compliant Floyd. It debunked any rumors of Floyd’s resistance and revealed that he was, in West’s words, “not treated like a human being.”
https://twitter.com/i/events/1277626590462124036 The man who proved that George Floyd was not resisting arrest
Rashad West, the owner of Minneapolis’ Dragon Wok, collected surveillance camera footage from outside his restaurant disproving police officer Derek Chauvin’s claims.
St. Louis couple point guns at peaceful crowd of protesters calling for mayor to resign
Around 6 p.m. Sunday, a barefoot man in a pink collared shirt walked out from the five-story house, carrying a semiautomatic rifle as he appeared to threaten the group. A few feet away, a woman pointed a pistol at the crowd, her finger directly on the trigger.
Couple draw guns at crowd heading to St. Louis mayor's home
An attorney for a white couple who pointed guns at protesters outside their mansion in St. Louis, Missouri, says they are strong supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement and its message seeking social justice
Video posted online showed Mark McCloskey, 63, and his 61-year-old wife, Patricia, standing outside their Renaissance palazzo-style home Sunday night in the city’s well-to-do Central West End neighborhood. He could be heard yelling while holding a long-barreled gun. His wife stood next to him with a handgun.
However, Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner issued a statement later Monday characterizing what happened differently and saying her office was working with police to investigate the confrontation.
“I am alarmed at the events that occurred over the weekend, where peaceful protesters were met by guns and a violent assault,” she said. “We must protect the right to peacefully protest, and any attempt to chill it through intimidation or threat of deadly force will not be tolerated.”
Twitch temporarily bans President Trump
A temporary suspension for ‘hateful conduct’
Twitch has temporarily banned President Donald Trump, in the latest surprise and high-profile suspension from the streaming service. Trump’s account was banned for “hateful conduct” that was aired on stream, and Twitch says the offending content has now been removed.
One of the streams in question was a rebroadcast of Trump’s infamous kickoff rally, where he said that Mexico was sending rapists to the United States. Twitch also flagged racist comments at Trump’s recent rally in Tulsa.
“Like anyone else, politicians on Twitch must adhere to our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines. We do not make exceptions for political or newsworthy content, and will take action on content reported to us that violates our rules,” a Twitch spokesperson told The Verge. The statement was originally issued last year when Trump’s channel was launched.
The racist language it banned Trump for is often allowed on other platforms due to his role as a politician and president of the United States.
The Trump campaign launched its Twitch page in October. The campaign appeared to use the page for broadcasting rallies and campaign events. The Verge has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.
Just minutes before Twitch suspended Trump, Reddit said it had banned a number of subreddits for harassment, including r/The_Donald. The subreddit is not directly affiliated with the president, as the Twitch channel is.
Tribune and McClatchy are both approaching critical deadlines that could lead to mergers, divisions — or even the first big nonprofit newspaper chain in the United States.
https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Susan%20Collins%22&src=trend_click Susan Collins vs Sara Gideon in Maine and Kavanaugh dissented, would have destroyed abortion rights
Reddit, Acting Against Hate Speech, Bans ‘The_Donald’ Subreddit
The influential pro-Trump community broke the rules on harassment and targeting, said Reddit, which also banned other groups.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/technology/reddit-hate-speech.html
The community or “subreddit,” called “The_Donald,” is home to more than 790,000 users who post memes, viral videos and supportive messages about Mr. Trump. Reddit executives said the group, which has been highly influential in cultivating and stoking Mr. Trump’s online base, had consistently broken its rules by allowing people to target and harass others with hate speech.
“Reddit is a place for community and belonging, not for attacking people,” Steve Huffman, the company’s chief executive, said in a call with reporters. “‘The_Donald’ has been in violation of that.”
Reddit said it was also banning roughly 2,000 other communities from across the political spectrum, including one devoted to the leftist podcasting group “Chapo Trap House,” which has about 160,000 regular users. The vast majority of the forums that are being banned are inactive.
https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1277665653000986625 ' @TeamYouTube just suspended the largest philosophy conversation the world has ever known. #FreeFreedomain
Stefan Molyneux: The Plagiarist
Stefan Molyneux is a cult figure and a white nationalist sympathizer who peddles what he claims to be unvarnished philosophical truths and self-help advice to his hundreds of thousands of YouTube viewers. But there’s an apparent problem with his posturing as a philosopher king: He doesn’t seem to have many original thoughts.
AP FACT CHECK: Actually, 20% of US lives in a virus hot spot
In offering this reassurance, Vice President Mike Pence and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar have said that only 3% or 4% of counties in the country are seeing a surge in cases. Focus on the “encouraging signs,” Pence told senators last week.
But they and other administration officials are skirting a key fact: More than 20% of Americans live in those relatively few counties.
The White House has repeatedly cited the low county tally, and Pence reaffirmed the point in a televised interview Sunday. He argued that states, not the federal government, should take the lead with reopening guidelines because virus outbreaks are happening in about “4% of all the counties in this country.”
As Predicted: Parler Is Banning Users It Doesn't Like
> Also, they actually can't moderate their content with political bias and enjoy their special protections under the decency communications act.
Hello! You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act
Author Of Section 230 Chris Cox Says All The Critics Are Wrong About The History And Intent Of 230
GOOGLE THREATENS TO DEFUND TECHDIRT? Where Are All The Politicians Complaining?
Undercover Facebook moderator was instructed not to remove fringe groups or hate speech
A new documentary details how third-party Facebook moderators ignore the company’s rules
By Nick Statt@nickstatt Jul 17, 2018, 5:32pm EDT
An investigative journalist who went undercover as a Facebook moderator in Ireland says the company lets pages from far-right fringe groups “exceed deletion threshold,” and that those pages are “subject to different treatment in the same category as pages belonging to governments and news organizations.” The accusation is a damning one, undermining Facebook’s claims that it is actively trying to cut down on fake news, propaganda, hate speech, and other harmful content that may have significant real-world impact.
From pandering to Putin to abusing allies and ignoring his own advisers, Trump's phone calls alarm US officials
(CNN)In hundreds of highly classified phone calls with foreign heads of state, President Donald Trump was so consistently unprepared for discussion of serious issues, so often outplayed in his conversations with powerful leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Erdogan, and so abusive to leaders of America's principal allies, that the calls helped convince some senior US officials -- including his former secretaries of state and defense, two national security advisers and his longest-serving chief of staff -- that the President himself posed a danger to the national security of the United States, according to White House and intelligence officials intimately familiar with the contents of the conversations.
The calls caused former top Trump deputies -- including national security advisers H.R. McMaster and John Bolton, Defense Secretary James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and White House chief of staff John Kelly, as well as intelligence officials -- to conclude that the President was often "delusional," as two sources put it, in his dealings with foreign leaders. The sources said there was little evidence that the President became more skillful or competent in his telephone conversations with most heads of state over time. Rather, he continued to believe that he could either charm, jawbone or bully almost any foreign leader into capitulating to his will, and often pursued goals more attuned to his own agenda than what many of his senior advisers considered the national interest.
Mark and Patricia McCloskey live in a neighborhood with million-dollar homes. The entire neighborhood is privately owned and managed, which means the entire street is considered private property.
House Democrats call for firing of USAID political appointee with history of Islamophobic statements
USAID religious freedom adviser Mark Kevin Lloyd, a Trump apointee, is under fire from Reps. Joaquin Castro and Ilhan Omar.
Why conservative Chief Justice Roberts just struck down an anti-abortion law
Trump Shares Video of Armed White Couple Confronting Protesters
A day after sharing on Twitter a video with a supporter yelling “white power,” the president retweeted a tense episode in St. Louis.
The ad buy, worth more than $90 million, comes as some in the Trump campaign see warning signs in multiple key states, including Michigan, Georgia and North Carolina, according to people familiar with the matter.
Ad tracking firms Advertising Analytics and Medium Buying announced that Trump’s campaign is reserving ad time starting in September in the key states of Arizona, Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Trump won all six states in 2016. The ad buy comes on top of the ads currently airing against Joe Biden in North Carolina.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kOesPt7iBY COVER YOUR FREAKIN' FACE! - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
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