USDA’s Perdue fined for violating Hatch Act while promoting food boxes

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Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue was found to have violated the Hatch Act in August by encouraging voters to support President Trump at an event to promote the Farmers to Families Food Box Program.In…

Police recorded offering to turn blind eye to prayer against COVID rules – The Jerusalem Post (politics first, health of all citizens second)

A police commander in the ultra-Orthodox city of Modiin Illit made an offer this week to an influential individual within the extremist Jerusalem Faction group that the police would ignore mass prayer indoors as long as the congregation pretended to disperse.
The revelation comes following allegations against the Jerusalem police that similar deals had been struck with extremist hassidic communities in Mea Shearim during the course of the recent holiday season.

Source: Police recorded offering to turn blind eye to prayer against COVID rules – The Jerusalem Post

Dozens infected, nine dead in COVID-19 outbreak at a Santa Cruz County nursing home

A skilled nursing home in Santa Cruz County is suffering a severe outbreak of COVID-19, with 61 people having tested positive and nine dead, a county health spokeswoman said Thursday.

Of the 61 infected at the Watsonville Post-Acute Center, nine were staff. All those who died were residents and ranged in age from their early 70s to 90s, said Corinne Hyland, a public information officer for the county Department of Public Health. The facility is licensed for 95 beds.

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A severe outbreak of coronavirus infection at a nursing home in Santa Cruz County has led to 61 cases and nine fatalities.

Companies slam Trump ally Harlan Hill after vulgar attack on Kamala Harris

Hill will no longer be allowed to appear on Fox News, the network said Thursday.

Both American Airlines and AT&T distanced themselves from him on Thursday and demanded he stop using their names and logo on his website.

“We have found no record of this person working for us, and he certainly never will in the future. We have contacted him and demanded he remove our name and logo from his website,” Jim Greer, a spokesman for AT&T, told CNBC.

Source: Companies slam Trump ally Harlan Hill after vulgar attack on Kamala Harris

A Master Class in Victim Blaming: White House Accuses Gretchen Whitmer of ‘Sowing Division’ for Criticizing White Supremacists

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In a press conference Thursday afternoon, Gretchen Whitmer responded to a right-wing militia’s plot to kidnap her by calling her alleged kidnappers by their titles, white supremacists. She directed her speech to the supremacist in chief, who has been stoking racist enclaves throughout his time in office who and has…

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