2024-June-22 Friday

408 Americans Died Last Week

1,192,931 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total

U.S. - 4.19% of the global population

Calculated 2023 Aug 07
U.S. - 16.38% of global pandemic deaths

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Proper #COVID19 language:

We ARE in a pandemic.
The global health emergencies are over.

We are NOT post-COVID.
We are post-caring about COVID across public health agencies and the population.

The pandemic is NOT behind us.
Most COVID monitoring and precautions are behind us.

COVID IS still a risk.

And most importantly, we truly will not know the long-term impact of one infection, much less five or more infections, for another three to five years.

US citizens- you might like to read about Project 2025 before November

“Project 2025 is more than an idea, it's a dystopian plot that’s already in motion to dismantle our democratic institutions, abolish checks and balances, chip away at church-state separation, and impose a far-right agenda that infringes on basic liberties and violates public will.”

In a ruling delivered Friday, the Supreme Court decided 6–3 that 💥U.S. citizens have no constitutional interest in their noncitizen spouses being able to enter the United States💥
—despite the obvious fact that a married person has an inherent interest in their spouse being able to live in the same country as they do.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned the ruling is a clear sign 🔥the court will seek to overturn protections for marriage equality next.🔥

Sotomayor issued a dire warning in her dissent, accusing the conservative supermajority of chipping away at constitutional protections for married couples
and saying they’re making “the same fatal error” as they did in Dobbs v. Jackson, the 2022 Supreme Court ruling that overturned federal abortion protections.

“The majority, ignoring these precedents, makes the same fatal error it made in Dobbs:
requiring too ‘careful [a] description of the asserted fundamental liberty interest,’” Sotomayor wrote.

👉 “The majority’s failure to respect the right to marriage in this country consigns U.S. citizens to rely on the fickle grace of other countries’ immigration laws to vindicate one of the ‘basic civil rights of man’ and live alongside their spouses.”
https://newrepublic.com/post/182960/supreme-court-sotomayor-non-citizens-marriage-munoz-obergefell

I had lunch the other day with an old work friend from 40 years ago. He voted for Trump in 2016, Biden in 2020 and is leaning towards Trump in the fall.
We've been friends for a long time, so I poked at only a few things to try to realign his understanding on.
The last thing I did was ask if he knew about Project 2025. Unsurprisingly he said no. "Google it" I replied. He said he would...

Trump has a plan to destroy democracy. Why haven’t people heard of it?
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/19/2246322/-Trump-has-a-plan-to-destroy-democracy-Why-haven-t-people-heard-of-it