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Stanford study details how Trump is killing Americans by spreading COVID-19 at his campaign rallies

Stanford study details how Trump is killing Americans by spreading COVID-19 at his campaign rallies

Posted by | Nov 1, 2020 |

As the U.S. coronavirus caseload surpassed nine million on October 30, Stanford University economists published a study that connected 18 of President Donald Trump’s reelection rallies from June 20 to September 30 with more than 30,000 COVID-19 infections and over 700 deaths. The tallies do not include the month of October, when cases nationwide surged. The new study, The Effects of Large Group Meetings on the Spread of COVID-19: The Case of Trump Rallies, comes after an analysis published on October 27 by the think tank Center for American Progress found that half of the 22 campaign rallies Trump...

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Republican schemes to rig Wisconsin’s election system has stirred partisan gridlock and voter frustration

Republican schemes to rig Wisconsin’s election system has stirred partisan gridlock and voter frustration

Posted by | Oct 31, 2020 |

The bipartisan commission that oversees voting in the swing state has deadlocked along party lines on key issues, resulting in inconsistency, turmoil, and delays. As ballots began pouring in by mail after Wisconsin’s April 7 primary, local election officials became increasingly perplexed over which ones to count. A federal judge had ordered that ballots arriving as many as six days after the election should be accepted, but the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed that window, ruling that ballots should be counted only if they were postmarked by Election Day. The trouble was that many ballots were arriving without postmarks, or...

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Kyle Rittenhouse delivered to Kenosha authorities after Illinois judge approves his extradition

Kyle Rittenhouse delivered to Kenosha authorities after Illinois judge approves his extradition

Posted by | Oct 31, 2020

A 17-year-old from Illinois accused of killing two demonstrators in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has been extradited to stand trial on homicide charges, with sheriff’s deputies in Illinois handing him over to their counterparts in Wisconsin shortly after a judge on October 30 approved the contested extradition. In his afternoon ruling that rejected Kyle Rittenhouse’s bid to remain in Illinois, Judge Paul Novak noted that defense attorneys had characterized the Wisconsin charges as politically motivated. “This Illinois court shall not examine any potential political impact a Wisconsin District Attorney potentially considered in his charging decision,” Novak’s six-page ruling said. He added...

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More than one million in-person and mailed ballots received by second day of Wisconsin’s early voting

More than one million in-person and mailed ballots received by second day of Wisconsin’s early voting

Posted by | Oct 27, 2020 |

More than 75,000 people in Wisconsin cast ballots on the first day of early in-person voting in the presidential battleground state, the state elections commission reported. Mail-in absentee voting has been available since September and more than 1 million people have already returned their ballots that way. The combined total of mail-in and early in-person votes cast in the state thus far amounts to 34% of the total votes cast in Wisconsin during the 2016 presidential election. The campaigns of President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden have been calling on their supporters to vote early in the...

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Trump pushes COVID-19 conspiracies at Waukesha “Superspreader” event as Wisconsin sees deadliest week

Trump pushes COVID-19 conspiracies at Waukesha “Superspreader” event as Wisconsin sees deadliest week

Posted by | Oct 26, 2020

Thousands of people gathered during a deadly pandemic at a Trump campaign rally in Waukesha on October 24, where the president again dismissed the seriousness of a coronavirus that has already claimed 220,000 American lives. The president’s rally at Stein’s Aircraft Services at the Waukesha County Airport was his second visit to Wisconsin within the last eight days, with another rally planned for Tuesday in West Salem. It came on the same day that Wisconsin’s week-long average of new daily COVID-19 cases hit an all-time high of 4,050. In the past week, nearly 200 Wisconsinites have died from the...

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Refusing terms of concession: When it is not possible to “agree to disagree” because one view is not valid

Refusing terms of concession: When it is not possible to “agree to disagree” because one view is not valid

Posted by | Oct 24, 2020

We recently found ourselves in a now-familiar location: hopelessly stuck in an unnavigable impasse on our respective paths, unable to find a way forward. And, as in so many times before, when the friction became too great and the exchange too heated and the tension too uncomfortable, you dropped an all-too-familiar final salvo designed to stop conversation and temporarily defuse the situation: “We’re just going to have to agree to disagree.” I disagree. I refuse these terms. Such a concession assumes that we both have equally valid opinions, that we’re each mutually declaring those opinions not so divergent that...

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