> I've seen enough: Lauren Boebert (R) has defeated Rep. Scott Tipton (R) in the #CO03 primary. Tipton becomes the fifth House incumbent to lose renomination in 2020

Yikes

Boebert owns a gun-themed restaurant, if you want to guess where she lies on the "how unhinged is this new Republican candidate?" scale

> At the request of many great Americans who live in the Suburbs, and others, I am studying the AFFH housing regulation that is having a devastating impact on these once thriving Suburban areas. Corrupt Joe Biden wants to make them MUCH WORSE. Not fair to homeowners, I may END!

dogs come from miles around at the sound of that whistle

hmm hickenlooper is ahead

love to vote for the dude who drank fracking fluid, in an apparently weird possibly kind of ritualistic fashion

^ how it's contested

@MadScientist because it would "interfere with God's wonderful breathing system"

and "you can not mandate wearing masks knowing that they are killing people"

like people would still make those same excuses for non medical covering

Oh, of course Boebert is a QAnoner too

Ugh, China crafting a policy to take arrested HKers and try them on the mainland

Oklahoma referendum to enact Medicaid expansion passes

Ah right and the President did a 14 word tweet with an emphasized H H combo and framed not wanting to preserve the Confederacy as a culture battle so uh yeah

> CNN has learned Hong Kong police have been instructed to arrest anyone chanting a slogan supporting Hong Kong or Taiwan independence, anyone in possession of a flag or banner promoting Hong Kong or Taiwan independence will also be arrested & prosecuted under the new nat sec law

> Senior White House officials are at odds with each other over how much the administration should talk about coronavirus. The @VP wants to boost messaging, but Kushner, Meadows & others fear it’s a bad idea

I mean to be fair Jared is correct that under no circumstances should he say anything

> Federal judge overturns Trump administration border policy that makes immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. first try to claim it in another country they pass through

@TimStone Staffer: i should address that we first must all agree that the president must not say anything. we are getting to the point where he'll blame 5G Towers for the outbreak

@TimStone Her opponent is a former state legislator and COBOL programmer! Go her!

> I know better than anyone that my friend Roger Ailes died 3 years ago, just look at what happened to @FoxNews. We all miss Roger!!!

Seems like a really bizarre thing to "know better than anyone"

Ah of course

Hi. I'm a little lost as to what MMO games are. For example, Elder Scrolls Online. Do games like this play like the offline version (complete a task, move to the next), other than many (all) characters in villages / caves / dungeons are other players?

@MyDaftQuestions You're in the wrong room. You should be in the Bridge. This room is for news

@MyDaftQuestions chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/35/the-bridge is where you can ask about games

@TimStone qanon must be enjoying all the fame they're getting tbh

their shitpost turned into a big cult

Big Brother contestants shocked as house goes into COVID-19 lockdown

when i first heard i thought how poetic it was that the isolated Big Brother contestants still get infected, but it's one of the stuff

still keeping them locked inside though

We now have an emergency task force to address looks at list of current crises, looks at notes uhhh statue vandalism?

@TimStone Priorities, man. Pri-fricking-orities

@TimStone We recently discovered that Global Warming may have actually interrupted and reversed a global cooling period, aka we fucked the planet even more than we thought, but yeah! Statues of racists and slave owners! That's the real crisis.

Seattle police are working to clear out a protest zone in the city that has become “lawless and brutal” after weeks of violence, including four shootings and the deaths of two teenagers, the city’s police chief said on Wednesday. reut.rs/31An27V

The details on the latest one are... messy

Erdoğan vows to take strict measures against social media platforms

> “As soon as we will bring it [bill] to our parliament, we want social media channels to be completely removed and controlled. I hope to deal with this issue before the legislative period ends,” Erdoğan said.

> Fox News fires Ed Henry over sexual misconduct complaint

Ed Henry of course being the one who defended Trump as "honest and transparent" after Trump said he was fake news and a "lying shit head"

@Unionhawk My main take away from this is when you give people guns, and tell them they're expected to act as guards or the "law" or whatever, that they'll eventually use those guns.

@Wipqozn I have heard reports that people in the car were genuinely shooting at people, but I don't think we're ever going to get to a satisfactory conclusion. The whole "proud boys have been beating people up for days" situation is definitely a contributing factor

@Unionhawk Wouldn't surprise me. I was mostly trying to make a commentary on the ever escalating militarization of the police and security guards.

Well US guards. Canadian guards can't just wield guns, normally.

aka if you give people guns, they'll eventually be used, since it normalizes weapons.

Senate Republicans defend Trump's response on Russian bounties

When you can't criticize the "boss" for anything, then you end up defending some pretty outrageous shit

Why Does Trump Put Russia First?

NYTimes opinion piece by former national security advisor Susan Rice

> NPC International, the owner of more than 1,200 Pizza Hut restaurants and 385 Wendy’s Co. stores, could file for chapter 11 protection as soon as Tuesday, according to people familiar with the company’s finances

The conclusion of Rice's piece above:

> What must we conclude from all this? At best, our commander in chief is utterly derelict in his duties, presiding over a dangerously dysfunctional national security process that is putting our country and those who wear its uniform at great risk. At worst, the White House is being run by liars and wimps catering to a tyrannical president who is actively advancing our arch adversary’s nefarious interests.

100% the latter

actually, 100% both.

Apropos of nothing,

> QAnon believers are obsessed with Michael Flynn. Now Flynn is returning the love, embracing a QAnon hashtag and writing a regular column filled with QAnon themes

> Gilead should be prepared to dramatically slash the price of its Covid-19 drug remdesivir if the drug fails to reduce deaths

That's economics bay-beeee

Woman takes down Nazi flag, gets shot in the back 4 times

> Mr Feaster was later taken into custody without incident.

@fredley What in the...? Why!?

I mean if I was a Nazi I'd wanna fly a Nazi flag too, I guess?

And apparently he's had other flags stolen before.

But...when you freaking dress up as an SS officer...who lets you carry guns?

@Frank :shrug: it's a free country

Scoop: Trump regrets Kushner advice

No idea if this is actually true, but it strikes me as funny

"idiot regrets putting other idiot in charge of things he knows nothing about"

oh, damn. He regrets listening to one of his rare good ideas. "No more of Jared's woke s*."**

> At anti-D.C. statehood press conference, Senator Steve Daines (R-Mt.) urges lawmakers to "go out to where the real people are at across the country and ask them where they think."

@fredley Thank Zeus this isn't one of the states where murder is legal if its on your property

Pew survey finds majority of Republicans continue to hold negative views of impact of higher ed -- a development that began before the election of President Trump. reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/hjdgg3/…

> In a Pew survey, only 36 percent of Republican and GOP-leaning respondents said higher education had a positive effect on the direction of the country -- a steep drop-off from responses only two years before, although the slide had begun in 2016, before the election.

> Results from another recent Pew survey indicate that those views have persisted. In July, only 33 percent of Republican survey respondents said higher ed had a positive effect. And 59 percent believed higher ed had a negative effect on the country’s direction, the highest number in the survey’s findings so far.

> That Pew survey found 67 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning respondents had positive views of higher ed, a slight drop-off from two years prior. Over all, 50 percent of U.S. adults said they had positive views of postsecondary education.