I perused Harper’s Weekly Report several times, searching for either weird animal news or a central theme. And the only one I’ve come up with is (above post title). (The bolding is mine.)<\/p>\n
To wit. Or to witless, in our current U.S. federal government:<\/p>\n
[T]he U.S. Secret Service<\/strong> said it believes Nigerian fraudsters have stolen millions of dollars from state unemployment insurance systems; and a new report showed that U.S. billionaires<\/strong> increased their total wealth by $369 billion in the past two months.<\/em><\/p>\n Pentagon<\/strong> officials expressed concern that pandemic relief might hurt the nation\u2019s nuclear weapons budget; Donald Trump<\/strong> announced the development of a \u201csuper-duper missile\u201d; and NASA<\/strong> revealed plans to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid named Didymoon in order to test its capacity to prevent a larger asteroid from destroying Earth. Department of Homeland Security<\/strong> officials said American telecom companies should expect attacks on 5G cell phone towers because of a conspiracy theory that claims the technology causes COVID-19.<\/em><\/p>\n NASA’s plans knock me out. Especially the name of the asteroid. Didymoon.<\/p>\n In our states, violence by white terrorists:<\/p>\n In several states, protesters armed with assault rifles were stationed outside of small businesses that had reopened prematurely. \u201cWe\u2019re the Wild West,\u201d said Governor Tony Evers, whose stay-at-home order was overturned by the Wisconsin<\/strong> Supreme Court. \u201cIt\u2019s a frightening place to be.\u201d In Oklahoma,<\/strong> two white men trapped a black delivery driver in a gated community after he refused to reveal the name of the customer who allowed him to enter, and in Kentucky<\/strong>, the governor called for an investigation into an incident in which Louisville police killed a black emergency medical technician in her home.<\/em><\/p>\n And around the world:<\/p>\n Iran<\/strong> proposed a prisoner swap with the United States, citing concern for the health of Iranians in the U.S., then fired a missile at its own ship during a training exercise, killing 19 sailors.<\/em><\/p>\n Brazilian<\/strong> president Jair Bolsonaro cancelled a large party, which critics had called \u201cthe barbecue of death,\u201d then rode a Jet Ski to another barbecue on a boat. In Hong Kong<\/strong>, a shop began selling tear-gas-flavored ice cream <\/em>[!!!!!!!]<\/strong> Dutch<\/strong> officials advised single men and women to procure quarantine \u201csex buddies,\u201d and police in Siberia<\/strong> cited two teenagers for breaking stay-at-home orders after they reported being raped on the street.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I perused Harper’s Weekly Report several times, searching for either weird animal news or a central theme. And the only one I’ve come up with is (above post title). (The bolding is mine.) To wit. Or to witless, in our … Continue reading
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