The Trump energy department has issued a long report saying “YEAH FOSSILE FUELS AWESOME BRING ON THOSE FOSSIL FUELS IGNORE THOSE WILDFIRES AND PUT SOME MORE FOSSIL FUEL IN THE TANK!”

Released a month before the election, the report is strikingly at odds with the realities of climate change that the American public has been coping with over the past few months, from huge wildfires to destructive derecho storms and a series of intense hurricanes.

As in, huge wildfires that killed 31 people in California so far and displaced thousands and polluted the air throughout much of the country. Kind of a major drawback, you’d think, but not to Trump’s energy department.

The report doesn’t cover any of the

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Now we’re talking.

Stephen Miller has tested positive.

Stephen Miller tests positive a day after his wife, a Pence aide, mocked Kamala Harris for wanting COVID protections at tomorrow’s VP debate. https://t.co/mpEDRDrGN2

— Andy Kaczynski (@KFILE) October 6, 2020

#BREAKING: Stephen Miller tests positive for being a dead-eyed white supremacist ghoul. oh yeah, and covid

— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) October 6, 2020

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I guess Marina Hyde is not a huge fan of Trump’s.

A rare moment of unity in the US election, as Donald Trump marked his return to the White House by gasping along with his detractors. On Monday night, the president puffed up the front staircase of his residence, his face coated in several more gallons of paint than the front elevation of the building. “Don’t let it dominate your lives,” he panted of the virus, a bad case of which tends to dominate your death.

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Still: don’t call him Wussolini. He beat this illness – which he still very much has – like a man. One of the really manly ones, who takes all the best drugs

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It’s That Barrister Again.

Screenshots for the many blocked of Jolyon’s hot take on Keira Bell’s challenge to the Tavistock. pic.twitter.com/ww4ou5OxHt

— Sarah Phillimore (@SVPhillimore) October 6, 2020

Here’s the thing:

They’re not reversible.

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It’s not just aides who are at risk in the White House.

The West Wing has reportedly turned into a “ghost town” amid complaints that the White House has failed to trace potential contacts of Trump and his infected aides, with many now working from home even as the president exhorted Americans “not to be afraid of Covid”.

Aides can work from home. You know who can’t?

That has left behind a skeleton staff of about 100 butlers, ushers, cleaners, custodians and maintenance workers, who are often older and drawn from groups at higher risk of developing severe symptoms of the virus, including a butler’s corp that has historically almost exclusively been black.

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Trump issued a “the flu is worse, COVID is nothing” tweet and Facebook post this morning. For once Twitter and Facebook stomped on it.

Twitter has flagged this Trump tweet after Facebook removed the same post claiming that the flu is deadlier than covid. pic.twitter.com/FLAewcPRPP

— Courtney Theriault (@cspotweet) October 6, 2020

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Psssssst wanna buy a commemorative coin?

The White House gift shop, which is not affiliated to the White House, has started taking pre-orders for a “President Donald J. Trump Defeats COVID” commemorative coin.

It’s in the same department as the “President Donald J. Trump Walks On Water” coin and the “President Donald J. Trump spins shit into gold” coin.

Note: he has the virus, it caused him two drops in oxygen level and a fever, he tested positive Thursday and the virus is known to get much worse 7 to 10 days after infection, he is in at least two high-risk groups, and…the virus is still infecting thousands of people a day and killing many. Trump hasn’t in any sense … Read the rest

Ah family life.

This mother-daughter moment between Kellyanne and Claudia Conway. “You’re taping me again?!” pic.twitter.com/nAOpQfjxCv

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) October 6, 2020

It seems Kellyanne picked up COVID at the superspreader event and gave it to her daughter and husband. Then she has the gall to tell her daughter: “You caused so much disruption.” … Read the rest

Maybe he shouldn’t have been in quite such a hurry to leave.

“Gasping” is trending on Twitter.

This is why:

Trump climbs a few steps to the White House, takes off his mask and then is visibly gasping and having diffulty breathing while he tries to wave and pretend everything is fine. pic.twitter.com/VXxSh1BNuO

— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) October 6, 2020

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Nick Cohen on the ongoing passion for bullying people into silence:

The current issue of the literary journal The Dark Horse contains a grim and resonant essay by the poet Jenny Lindsay, which shows how Scottish poetry allowed the extremes to define it. In Anatomy of a Hounding she describes the process of humiliation and denunciation she has recently experienced.

…In June 2019 she objected to a writer for the Skinny, who said they believed in ‘violent action’ against Terfs (in this instance lesbian feminists at a Pride March). Lindsay contacted the magazine on Twitter and said:

Hello! One of your commentators here advocates violence against lesbian activists at Pride. I find it extraordinary that such views are

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MAKE IT STOP

I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 5, 2020

Don’t let Covid dominate your life, the stupid reckless dribbling fool tells us because he’s only a few days into his case and because he had the undivided attention of a whole team of doctors. Yes brilliant advice genius IF you have a mild case but many people DON’T have a mild case so

STOP

TALKING

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I just want to underline how much I hate his high-on-steroids video from yesterday. How much I hate his giddy high-pitched grinning glee.

pic.twitter.com/0Bm9W2u1x7

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 4, 2020

And especially how much I hate the part that starts 50 seconds in, where he says

It’s been a very interesting journey. I learned a lot about COVID. I learned it by really going to school, this is the real school, this isn’t the let’s read the book school, and I get it, and I understand it.

I hate the content and I hate the style. I hate the style because his giddy squealy good mood escalates – I hate it because he gets all excited about … Read the rest

The CDC says a new thing about how the virus spreads:

Two weeks after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed online guidance about airborne transmission of the coronavirus, the agency has replaced it with language citing new evidence that the virus can spread beyond six feet indoors, adrift in the air.

“These transmissions occurred within enclosed spaces that had inadequate ventilation,” the new guidance said. “Sometimes the infected person was breathing heavily, for example while singing or exercising.”

Or shouting or haranguing…

Despite the time former Vice President Joseph R. Biden spent with President Trump during the presidential debate, Mr. Biden is continuing to campaign because he did not meet the C.D.C. requirement for close contact —

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Meanwhile from the other side of the Control Women faction, the Federalist explains us the joy of submission (for women that is; obviously not for men).

I’d like to say it’s just those darned pagan liberals who hate the biblical teaching that wives are to submit to their husbands. But the fact is, feminism has finished its long march through the institutions, and most conservatives have been indoctrinated to hate this teaching as well.

Oh cheer up, bro – feminism is now being dismantled from within and handed over to men who say they are women. You’ve won.

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What was that about a contagious person going out for a joy ride with a bunch of people in a car?

The president on Sunday was sharply criticized for leaving the hospital to greet supporters. Doctors and experts said he put the health of the personnel riding with him in the car at risk.

Let’s go back to 2014 for a moment…

2014 https://t.co/8DaDAevMkr

— Andy Kaczynski (@KFILE) October 5, 2020

If this doctor, who so recklessly flew into New York from West Africa,has Ebola,then Obama should apologize to the American people & resign!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 23, 2014

In a pair of 2014 tweets being shared online, Trump attacked a New York doctor who had returned

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Trump wanna go home. Trump wanna be free. Trump don’t care all those other people Trump WANNA GO HOME.

Sources told CNN that Trump had demanded to be released from the hospital on Sunday.

Trump, as ever, is concerned about the optics of staying in the hospital, according to CNN’s Jim Acosta. He worries the visual of him being hospitalized “makes him look weak,” a source told the network.

Focused like a laser on the important issue.… Read the rest

Organizations that claim to campaign for or promote or defend women continue to help men take over.

A statement regarding eligibility for the Women's Prize for Fiction. pic.twitter.com/WRGBtQmSCf

— Women's Prize (@WomensPrize) October 5, 2020

“…to honour, celebrate and champion women’s voices, and to shine a spotlight on phenomenal fiction written by women…a diverse breadth of women’s voices…the voices of women and the experience of being a woman…the word ‘woman’ equates to a cis woman, a transgender woman” which is to say A MAN.

We’re here to celebrate women, we’re here because literary prizes so consistently overlooked women, we set out (as the Orange Prize) to redress that overlooking of women, and now we’re dynamiting the whole idea by including … Read the rest

Oopsie.

BREAKING: White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tweets that she tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday morning. She said she is experiencing no symptoms and had no knowledge of Hope Hick’s testing positive before her briefing on Thursday https://t.co/SMZJQmT006 pic.twitter.com/i8pqn5x48d

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 5, 2020

She seems indignant that she has tested positive after testing negative. But…how else does she think that should work?

https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1313144500903202816 https://twitter.com/spulliam/status/1313145519590514689

And yet…her signature golden cross didn’t work.

Kayleigh McEnany, who has tested positive for coronavirus, takes off her face covering before speaking with reporters last Friday, hours after President Trump announced he and his wife tested positive for coronavirus. (Getty) pic.twitter.com/XHIZbnx2eC

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 5, 2020

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Here’s the video where he giddily tells us he’s going to go outside and visit the fans…he the highly infectious patient is going to skip through the hospital – where he’s been meeting soldiers and first responders, he says, despite that whole HIGHLY INFECTIOUS thing – skip through the hospital and jump in a sealed car with some agents and do what he can to spread the virus even more.

pic.twitter.com/0Bm9W2u1x7

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 4, 2020

If only this were happening in the real world.

https://twitter.com/DMRDynamics/status/1312885566829023234

It’s worth asking who green lighted this. In addition to the car exposures, he presumably didn’t jump out a window; rather, our preeminent military hospital allowed an infectious covid patient to

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About those steroids…

The White House physician said Sunday that President Donald Trump is now taking another drug for Covid-19, adding to his growing list of treatments for his illness.

Dr. Sean Conley said the president was given a steroid called dexamethasone following “two episodes of transient drops in his oxygen saturation,” meaning his oxygen levels dropped too low.

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Dexamethasone has been shown to be beneficial in those with severe Covid-19 because it can stop the immune system from going into overdrive. When that happens, the immune system can do more harm than good, attacking the body in what is called a cytokine storm.

However, the drug is not recommended for more mild cases of the disease.

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