Quarantine Diaries: Day 299

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over 3 years ago (Edited)

coronavirus

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Regional rules 'probably going to get tougher', says Boris Johnson

L.A. homeless sites ‘overwhelmed’ by COVID-19: ‘These are the toughest times’

WH COVID Task Force Members Push Back At Trump’s Bogus Claim Of Inflated Death Rates

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Are pandemic relief checks making UBI inevitable?

U.S. officials are reportedly privately worried Russia stole blueprints for U.S. blackout restoration

Politics:

British Court Rejects U.S. Request To Extradite WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange

Trump Tries To Bully GA Sec Of State Into Overturning Results In Unhinged Call

In an audio recording obtained by the Post, Trump issued an ominous warning to Raffensperger that the Georgia secretary of state is taking “a big risk” by not going along the President’s election fraud falsehoods.
Trump threatened Raffensperger and his office’s general counsel, Ryan Germany, on the call by suggesting that they will be subject to criminal liability if they fail to find that thousands of ballots in Fulton County have been illegally destroyed to block investigators — an assertion that Trump spewed without evidence.
Trump continuously attacked Raffensperger for refusing to buy into his election fraud claims throughout the call. Sounding angry and impatient, Trump took aim at Raffensperger by calling him a “child” and “either dishonest or incompetent” because Georgia’s top elections official won’t do his bidding of overturning the battleground state’s election results.