Cabbage News Network Week #189

Monday 9/14

• Post Office sent out a mailer with false voting information (source).
  
• Court okays ending humanitarian protections for immigrants (source).
  
• HHS official encourages DJT supporters to arms themselves in order to fight imagined conspiracy of scientists (source).
  
• DJT argues that climate change has no role in the West being on fire, fires are totally normal (source).
  
• Dems are investigating HHS biased intelligence reports (source).
  
• Administration backs down on Medicaid cuts (source).
  
• Judge strikes down Covid-19 protections in Pennsylvania (source).
  
• DJT campaign events violating Covid-19 guidelines (source).

Tuesday 9/15

• UAE and Bahrain normalize relations with Israel in DJT-brokered deal (source).
  
• WTO rules against U.S. regarding trade war with China (source).
  
• Whistleblower alleges medical neglect and unnecessary hysterectomies at ICE facility in Georgia (source).
  
• DoJ is going after publisher of John Bolton's book (source).
  
• States are seeking Federal help against wildfires (source).
  
• DJT still claiming that Covid-19 will just go away on its own (source).
  

Wednesday 9/16

• DJT denies downplaying Covid-19, despite his being on tape doing so and repeatedly doing so pretty much every day. (source, list of the 123 times he has done so).
  
• DJT/GOP begin acting like Biden has been president all along and are blaming him for failures of the current administration (source).
  
• DJT youth organization setting up troll farms to spread disinformation (source).
  
• Military considered using experimental heat ray against DC protesters (source).

Thursday 9/17

• White House to develop a pro-white people american school curriculum, DJT likens teaching children about racism to child abuse (source).
  
• FBI reports on continuing efforts of Russia to influence the election on behalf of DJT (source).
  
• Judge issues injunction against postal service changes (source).
  
• DJT announces aid package for farmers, this is aid that was authorized in Covid-19 relief bill and still hasn't been distributed (source).

Friday 9/18

• Ex-White House aide gives detailed insiders account of DJT's disastrous non-response to the pandemic (source).
  
• Administration plans to block TikTok and WeChat (source).
  
• New sexual assault allegation against DJT, this is addition to the 20+ previous allegations (source, list of all of them).
  
• We're expected to hit 200,000 Covid-19 deaths sometime this weekend (source).
  

In Other News

• Transition Integrity Project report on possible scenarios for what might happen this November-January - a long, but very interesting read.

Maps of the week

• The West is on fire.
  
• Fire & smoke map.
  
• Projected climate change impacts map series.
  
• Covid-19 changes over the last 2 weeks.
  

Legislative update

• Legislation signed into law
  
  
  
• Legislation awaiting DJT's signature
  
  • 5 minor bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the House, awaiting Senate
  
  • 31 minor bills
    
  • 470 total pending bills sitting on McConnell's desk
  
  
• Legislation passed in the Senate, awaiting House
  
  • 5 minor bills
    
  • 167 total pending bills sitting on Pelosi's desk