The Weekly Whatever: roving gangs of wise guys
Quote of the week
Aunt Jemima was canceled… She was a picture of the American dream. She was a freed slave who went on to be the face of the pancake syrup that we love and have in our pantries today."
-- "Students For Trump" speaker
Wait, what?
- Rhode Island officially renamed Rhode Island.
Dystopia technologica
- Zuckerberg announces that Facebook will no longer allow hate speech in paid ads, and will sometimes label unpaid Trump posts which violate the company's acceptable content policies.
For science!
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Swiss scientists grow miniature Neanderthal brains.
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Experiment shows it is possible for fish to migrate via ingestion by birds.
Threat Level Orange
- During protests in DC, the National Guard have been guarding Trump's hotels, but not monuments or museums.
That's some mighty fine police work there, Lou
- NYPD Police Commissioner says that officers driving their cars into protestors does not violate use of force policy (Video of incident).
Well, fancy that!
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Facebook is trying to carve out a blanket GDPR exemption for domain registration info.
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Trump is on target to be the first President since Nixon to not select a single Black nominee for any federal appeals court.
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Co-founder of Students For Trump pleads guilty to $46,000 fraud scheme.
We're fucked
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Climate change is causing blooms of cigauteric algae, which are eaten by fish and make the fish toxic to humans.
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Areas inside the Arctic Circle hit 45 celsius.
Sick, sad world
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Barcelona Opera House reopens for a concert for 2,292 houseplants.
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The US military has a boogaloo problem.
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$1.4b of stimulus went to dead people.
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Former Republican elected official pleads guilty to selling babies.
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Three people die after drinking hand sanitizer.
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Doomscrolling at night is slowly eroding your mental health.
Going viral
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Federal agency quietly stops funding development of treatments for COVID-19 sufferers.
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BLM protests discouraged people from traveling unnecessarily, and led to a reduction in rate of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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Tim Walters, co-founder of "ReOpen Maryland", now has COVID-19 and is in the ER, but says he won't cooperate with contact tracing efforts.