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Best Quote of the Week – August 8, 2020

“Trump is actively sabotaging the election under our noses – this isn’t theoretical, it’s happening RIGHT NOW.”

Brian Tyler Cohen, on the recent ousting of top executives of the U.S. Postal Service.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s mail service, displacing the executives in a move now dubbed the “Friday Night Massacre.  The incident comes as congressional Democrats called for an investigation of DeJoy and the cost-cutting measures that have slowed postal deliveries and jeopardized mail-in ballots in recent primary elections.

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Darwin Award Winner of the Month – July 2020 – Louie Gohmert

“[I]f I get it, you’ll never see me without a mask.”

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX)

The far right-wing congressman who had adamantly refused to wear a mask in public has now tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

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Instagram Moment of the Week – August 1, 2020

In a now deleted Instagram post, semi-singer and desperately untalented actress Madonna praised the words of Donald Trump’s newest medical hero, Dr. Stella “Demon Sperm” Immanuel.

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Photo of the Week – August 1, 2020

Since 2014, wildlife filmmaker and photographer Mithun H has searched for Saya, a black panther that’s been eluding his admirers in the Kabini Forest in India for years.  After camping out in the area for six days recently, the photographer captured an image of Saya, alongside his leopard companion, Cleopatra.

Mithun H notes that the couple has been together for four years and has an feline atypical relationship.  “Usually in the courting pairs generally it is the male who takes charge and moves around with the female following close behind.  But with this couple, it was definitely Cleo who was in charge while the panther followed,” he wrote on Instagram.

Mithun H has previously worked with National Geographic Wild on The Real Black Panther, which follows Saya’s life.

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Tweet of the Week – August 1, 2020

In a now-deleted Tweet, Vance Ginn, the chief economist for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, commented that schools should open since most COVID-19 victims in Texas are elderly or Hispanic.

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Worst Quote of the Week – August 1, 2020

“Hello, you don’t need a mask. There is a cure.”

Stella Immanuel, a Houston-based primary care physician and minister who, in a recent video, declared that the COVID-19 coronavirus can be easily cured.

The video was retweeted by – who else – Donald Trump, which Twitter promptly removed.  Immanuel has already joined the President in touting hydroxychloroquine as a cure for COVID-19, but also has a history of making particularly outlandish statements — including that the uterine disorder endometriosis is caused by sex with demons that takes place in dreams.

For the curious: incubus.

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Best Quote of the Week – August 1, 2020

“So it sort of is curious: A man works for us – with us, very closely, Dr. Fauci, and Dr. Birx also highly thought of.  And yet, they’re highly thought of, but nobody likes me.  It can only be my personality.  That’s all.”

President Donald Trump, in a White House press briefing on July 29.

No, Donald, that’s not true.  A handful of people like you: Vladimir Putin, David Duke, most of your family, and a slew of delightfully deranged voters.  I personally pray for the latter group.

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Instagram Moment of the Week – July 25, 2020

In a video uploaded by Jordan Gipson, a delivery driver with Black Postmates in Los Angeles, a combative and maskless woman refuses to allow Gipson into the building.  Eventually the resident who ordered the food arrives (wearing a mask) to get their food.

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Video of the Week – July 25, 2020

In an interview on FOX News with Marc Siegel, an associate professor of medicine at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, President Donald Trump defended his recent cognitive test.

Sad.  So very sad.

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Photo of the Week – July 25, 2020

This is just one of a large number of photos captured by New York City area residents on July 23 of a lightning bolt striking near the Statue of Liberty.

Just sort of humbles humanity back into its rightful place, doesn’t it?

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