Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

… makes me wish i had hoarded more linguine

Deploy the moving finger of emphasisity!

This is how realignments happen…

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Militantly superior in their own minds…

Historically it is a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Something seems odd about that, but i have been drinking.

This really is a full service blog.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Let there be snark.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

It’s not even safe to go out and pick up 2 days worth of poop anymore.

I did not have this on my fuck 2020 bingo card.

Shock troops for the Unitarian Jihad.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Where tasty lettuce and good mustard aren’t elitist.

Not all heroes wear capes.

The willow is too close to the house.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Shocking, but not surprising

We have all the best words.

Saul Alinsky is my co-pilot.

Dinky Hocker shoots smack!

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update: Wednesday / Thursday, June 3-4

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  1. 1.

    Benw

    I have personally seen that cops are pulling non-violent protestors facemasks down or off while arresting them. The police are the problem here.

  2. 2.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily numbers: 277 new cases: 275 local infections comprising four Malaysians and 271 non-Malaysians; two imported infections. 270 of the non-Malaysians are illegal immigrants already quarantined in the Bukit Jalil detention centre in KL; the exception is from a construction-site cluster in KL. Total 8,247 cases. Other than the Bukit Jalil centre, daily new cases from local infection is down to single digits, notes DG of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

    28 more patients recovered, total 6,559 recovered or 79.5% of all cases. Of 1,573 active cases, six are in ICU including two on ventilators. No deaths for the 13th day in a row, total is still 115 deaths. Infection fatality rate 1.39%, case fatality rate 1.72%.

  4. 4.

    Amir Khalid

    @Benw:

    Why are the cops arresting non-violent protestors?

  5. 5.

    terben

    From the Australian Dept of Health:

    ‘As at 3:00pm on 4 June 2020, a total of 7,240 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Australia, including 102 deaths and 6,664 have been reported as recovered from COVID-19.

    • Over the past week, there has been an average of 13 new cases reported each day. Of the newly reported cases, the majority have been from Victoria.
    • To date, over 1,546,000 tests have been conducted nationally. Of those tests conducted 0.5% have been positive.’

    11 new cases today with 24 recoveries. In my state, the last case has recovered. Australia has 24 cases in hospital, 4 in ICU and 2 on ventilators.

  6. 6.

    Shalimar

    @Balconesfault: Overnight.  Shs puts it together Wednesday from news that day, schedules it to post early Thursday.   They’re all labeled this way.

  7. 7.

    Shalimar

    @Amir Khalid: Because they can?  One thing you learn living in the country with the largest prison population in the world is that cops are very arbitrary.  Whefher you get a warning or prison for 10 years frequently depends on their mood.  And they’re not in a good mood right now.

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    @Shalimar

    It’s since been corrected but read Tuesday/Wednesday when it first showed up.

  9. 9.

    Benw

    @Amir Khalid: Second to Shalimar: I can’t tell you why. The protests are non-violent. But the cops in the US are firing gas, pepper balls and rubbers bullets into non-violent protests. Then pulling off the masks of the civilians they arrest. The police are the problem.

  10. 10.

    Amir Khalid

    @Amir Khalid:

    Forgot to mention: the new cases number is the highest reported for one day since the outbreak of the pandemic. But again, 270 of the 277 are confined to one place: an illegal immigrant detention centre. Infection in the community has come down to a single-digit daily number.

  11. 11.

    Balconesfault

    As sports return it will be interesting to see who gets off “the juice” because the risk of artificially enhanced androgen levels becomes much more immediate.

  14. 14.

    laura

    @Amir Khalid: because they are an affront to those who believe power and subjugation are their reason for being, because the nonviolent are easy targets for arrest and because they exploit what they view as weakness, because the real lesson is power without accountability.

  15. 15.

    LongHairedWeirdo

    @Amir Khalid: one way to help stop protests is to make protesting be more costly and inconvenient, so mass arrests, lots of “OMG we’re SO afraid, here’s more pepper spray!”, and rubber bullets, etc. are used in the hopes of making more and more people unwilling to protest.

    Trouble is, since people are protesting the police abusing their power, it doesn’t strike me as a sound tactic.

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