Sadly, SCOTUS giveth and SCOTUS says FU. With nationwide protests raging over police brutality, they decided they don’t need to bother with that pesky qualified immunity issue that is allowing police to do whatever the FUCK they want.
Shameful.
Why does it feel like SCOTUS is 20 years behind on everything?
Not surprising but to see that less that a 1/4 of Americans are happy, is noteable. And makes me not happy. 
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Spoiler alert: 2020 has been rough on the American psyche. Folks in the U.S. are more unhappy today than they’ve been in nearly 50 years.
This bold — yet unsurprising — conclusion comes from the COVID Response Tracking Study, conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago. It finds that just 14% of American adults say they’re very happy, down from 31% who said the same in 2018. That year, 23% said they’d often or sometimes felt isolated in recent weeks. Now, 50% say that.
The survey, conducted in late May, draws on nearly a half-century of research from the General Social Survey, which has collected data on American attitudes and behaviors at least every other year since 1972. No less than 29% of Americans have ever called themselves very happy in that survey.
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From the “pro-life” party:
Barr has now authorized federal executions to resume & has already scheduled 4, one on Aug 28—the day Emmett Till was lynched. Only 3 federal executions have taken place since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988.
I think Donnie can kiss that nobel prize good-bye for good now…
So this is exactly as described in Bolton’s book…
And, predictably, Trump heard about it and got angry:
The hate-filled crazies are plotting horrible deeds. Glad he was charged before anything horrible happened.
Army soldier charged with giving classified info to neo-Nazi group
A U.S. Army soldier stationed overseas has been charged with passing along information about his unit’s planned deployment overseas, intending it to get extremist groups to attack it.
Army Private Ethan Phelan Melzer, 22, of Louisville, Kentucky, faces a host of federal attempted murder charges, handed up Monday by a federal grand jury, that carry a maximum sentence of life in prison. John Demers, assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s national security division said Melzer “planned a deadly ambush on his fellow soldiers in the service of a diabolical cocktail of ideologies laced with hate and violence.”
So this really happened in Seattle last Friday. The fuck.
Trusted Community news site👇(I think they used to be a newspaper? Update:creditable hobbyists )
And then there is this…
On a 52-48 vote, the Senate has confirmed Cory Wilson to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals - the 200th federal judge confirmed under Trump and the GOP Senate, and the first time in four decades that there is not a single circuit court vacancy nationwide.
Trump Campaign advisor convicted of child sex charges
DC statehood just passed the House 
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Recent SCOTUS decisions have been very favorable to liberals and today, again Roberts sided with the more liberal judges and confirmed an existing precedent. 
The measure would have required abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at hospitals within 30 miles of a clinic.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Louisiana’s tough restriction on abortion violates the Constitution, a surprising victory for abortion rights advocates from an increasingly conservative court.
The 5-4 decision, in which Chief Justice John Roberts joined with the court’s four more liberal justices, struck down a law passed by Louisiana’s legislature in 2014 that required any doctor offering abortion services to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles. Its enforcement had been blocked by a protracted legal battle.
Two Louisiana doctors and a medical clinic sued to get the law overturned. They said it would leave only one doctor at a single clinic to provide services for nearly 10,000 women who seek abortions in the state each year.
The challengers said the requirement was identical to a Texas law the Supreme Court struck down in 2016. With the vote of then-Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court ruled that Texas imposed an obstacle on women seeking access to abortion services without providing any medical benefits. Kennedy was succeeded by the more conservative Brett Kavanaugh, appointed by President DonaldTrump, who was among the four dissenters Monday.
Hong Kong will be further knee-capped by China and all the demonstrations there against that will be quashed. 
China passed a contentious new law for Hong Kong on Tuesday that would empower the authorities to crack down on opposition to Beijing, risking deeper rifts with Western governments that have warned about the erosion of freedoms in the territory.
The swift approval by lawmakers in Beijing, less than two weeks after they first formally considered the legislation, signaled the urgency that the Communist Party leader, Xi Jinping, has given to expanding control in Hong Kong after the territory was convulsed by pro-democracy protests last year.
The lawmakers voted unanimously for the national security law for Hong Kong, according to Lau Siu-kai, a senior Beijing adviser on Hong Kong policy, as well as two Hong Kong newspapers that serve as conduits for official policy from Beijing, Wen Wei Po and Ta Kung Pao.
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