Trump donor and new postmaster with major conflict of interest, Louis DeJoy, yields to critics and will restore full service through election…--it appears Mitch McConnell didn’t support Trump’s demolition scheme, and DeJoy will be appearing before Senate and House committees
--Senate intelligence committee releases report, used by NY Times and WashPost to defend their investment in Russiagate narrative
--social media content firm sues Facebook for tagging its posts as Russian propaganda
--Caitlin Johnstone has strong rebuke of YouTube’s ban on “hacked information”
--at Shadowproof, Kevin Gosztola captures bipartisan outrage over Trump’s tease about pardoning Ed Snowden
--Trump pardons the late, great Susan B Anthony
--night 1 of the DNC online convention was carefully scripted infomercial with simple message: Trump bad, Biden good
--personality overtook policy, which was served in broad strokes used to stoke fears of Trump and Covid blame
--Michele Obama’s speech connected with many Dem females
--SF Chronicle political writer Joe Garofoli notes that promoters of Russiagate and impeachment aren’t being featured
--Veep pick Harris draws few mentions, but the mudballs from the right are coming fast & furious
--as NY AG sues to take down NRA, whistleblower Josh Powell shares parts of new book that describe massive fraud that he was a party to
--Trump judge leads panel that overturns California ban on large gun magazines
--heatwave in the West overloads power grid, producing rolling blackouts and fingerpointing between regulators and grid manager
--citing SCOTUS sex discrimination decision, federal judge blocks Trump move to restore discrimination of transsexuals
--hooray! Federal judge in Portland fines robocall company $925 million
--our daily Covid-19 update, prepared by Linda Lewis; the link to data on oleandrin is here
--Fox vigilantes threaten photographer assigned to NY Times story of Tucker Carlson’s vacation pad in Maine
--listener Paul Ellcessor has critical comments of Planet of the Humans
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