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Astrid Kirchherr, who first photographed The Beatles (and was engaged to "fifth Beatle", Stuart Sutcliffe), is dead at 81: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/astrid-kirchherr-beatles-photographer-dead-obit-1000677/

No link as I just heard this on my local news, but I guess Mike Bloomberg is about to begin a media blitz with his deep pockets for Joe Biden. Glad he is keeping his word.

These results are from today, so I hope it's just an outlier. Because, if not...

In today's "WTF?!" news, polls have Ohio for a$$h0le by 3 points and Texas by 6. I just do NOT get these people.

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I think we'll be okay. Look at Wisconsin: The Supreme Court BACKED the GOP to make people risk their lives, but the funny thing is? They DID - and a Democrat WON. Anger is a big motivator.

And Trump is apparently alienating Pennsylanians now. Apparently he said they should reopen for "freedom" and they are like hell NO!

Reading these, I wish I could have seen 1975 Days. (I was just 2 in January 1975.) No serial killers as romantic heroes. No brain chips. Just good old-fashioned soap based on friends, family, love, and deception.

In today's Captain Obvious award, WaPo reports the GOP now fears losing control of the Senate. Ya THINK?! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-grow-nervous-about-losing-the-senate-amid-worries-over-trumps-handling-of-the-pandemic/2020/05/09/65691184-915f-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html#comments-wrapper

Seems Trump is flouting Coronavirus protocols even as staffers in the White House have become infected. I say, for once, he is right. Let him do nothing and let the virus have the final say. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-flouts-coronavirus-protocols-as-security-experts-warn-of-need-to-protect-president-from-a-lethal-threat/2020/05/08/3a6a9cec-9136-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html#comments-wrapper

If this is winning, Trump is actually right. I AM tired of it.

I bet it's like "Lord of the Flies" behind the scenes in there. Couldn't happen to a better crop of monsters.

Yeah, saw that. But what I am seeing is that, by and large, people still think Reade is FOS. And honestly? Even IF Biden did this (and I don't buy it), I don't GAF. I'll vote for him, anyway. Trump is THAT BAD. Thousands of deaths tends to color things... It does beg the question, however, of when Reade will start another GoFundMe scam to pay the lawyer (if she doesn't stiff him outright as she did her law school). But then, if this lawyer is a Trump toady, he should be used to never getting paid. (If he is this time, my guess is the Bernie Bros have a hand there. Especially since Reade was all in for him and now is calling on Biden to withdraw. No ulterior motive. No, sirree!)

Welcome To The (Pandemic) Jungle! Steven Mnuchin gets into a Twitter spat with...Axl Rose of Guns 'N Roses about the pandemic. God help me, Rose made sense and was right. https://deadline.com/2020/05/axl-rose-steven-mnuchin-coronavirus-1202928584/

And now, Donald Trump is on his way to wrecking the United States Postal Service: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-republican-fundraiser-and-trump-ally-to-be-named-postmaster-general-giving-president-new-influence-over-postal-service-officials-say/2020/05/06/25cde93c-8fd4-11ea-8df0-ee33c3f5b0d6_story.html#comments-wrapper

AMEN!

Soledad O'Brien is pretty damned awesome. Wish there were more reporters like her and less like...well, most of everyone else. The professional ones are either retired or dead.

I see this is dated yesterday. Today's revelations ought to make that "article" [cough: hit job] moot.

This sounds disgusting - and it is. I don't deny it. But the GOP being SUCCESSFUL at getting an ADMITTED abuser of women via tape [Access Hollywood] into the White House has changed what voters deem a deal breaker or not. Maybe we should be better. But ANY candidate will have mud flung. So, whether Biden did this or not? I still think he is better than the POS that has killed scores of Americans to bolster his reelection chances. At this point, since our very nation is proverbially on fire, I assert Trump's "shoot someone on 5th Avenue!" verbiage to Joe. I wish it didn't come down to this for me. But it does.

And that is the heart of her grifting...sorry, complaint. The flies are swarming this thread what with the level of crap in it. Reade's either an opportunist extraordinaire or severely mentally ill and being exploited.

Sadly, I agree. Just apply Trump's "5th Avenue" comment to Biden. Because 4 more years of Trump is dangerous and unconscionable. I'll gladly and enthusiastically vote for Joe Biden.

Lord knows they are trying! But most of the mainstream media still seems to be bypassing it, which is probably why Donnie is forever in a rage these days what with Biden crushing him in the polls. Still? If the GOP wants to amp this up, I say, go for it. Then Biden can bring up E. Jean Carroll and the TWENTY-PLUS accusations from different women against Trump, not to mention bringing the Access Hollywood Tape back for an encore. Slippery slopes abound.

So, this whole Tara Reade mess. Let me be honest and say I think this is all crap. But the thing that seals that for me is, I read somewhere yesterday that Ronan Farrow allegedly met with Ms. Reade and he chose not to do an article or whatever. If that is true, that tells me ALL I need to know. Farrow has been a dog with a bone going after predators, so if this had merit, I think he would go full throttle.

In that same vein:

If Trump is gung ho on injecting disinfectant into COVID patients, I say he make himself the test subject and prove those uppity doctors wrong! /s