Friday, November 13, 2020

Reading archive 2020-11-13

More than 130 Secret Service officers are said to be infected with coronavirus or quarantining in wake of Trump’s campaign travel

Elon Musk, who has cold symptoms, says his coronavirus tests are inconclusive: ‘Something extremely bogus is going on’

Passengers on first cruise in Caribbean test positive for coronavirus

Trump wasn’t wrong about China. But here’s how Biden can do a better job.

This is a massive failure of character among Republicans — with evangelicals out in front - "...U.S. politics would be better off if White evangelicals consistently applied their moral tradition to public life. Not only Christians, of course, can stand for integrity. But consider what would happen if White evangelicals insisted on supporting honest, compassionate, decent, civil, self-controlled men and women for office. The alternative is our current reality, in which evangelicals have often been a malicious and malignant influence in U.S. politics."

China strikes its worst blow yet against autonomy and rule of law in Hong Kong

The potato head of Palencia: defaced Spanish statue latest victim of botched restoration: Conservation professionals have questioned why Spain's heritage is continually handed over to those with no formal training

Alito's politically charged address draws heat: The Supreme Court justice warned that not only is freedom of belief under threat, but freedom of expression is as well.

Alito raises religious liberty concerns about Covid restrictions and same-sex marriage ruling - "Alito also reiterated what he had written in 2015, when he dissented from the court's decision to clear the way for same-sex marriage nationwide. 'I could see,' he said, where the decision would lead for those who 'cling to traditional views on marriage.' He reiterated that opponents of the ruling would risk being 'labeled as bigots and treated as such by governments, employers and schools.'

Far-right protesters, counterdemonstrators plan to gather Saturday in D.C. amid pro-Trump rallies

A war among Trump’s kids shows this family won’t let us move on

Biden finds support among Republicans as Trump scrambles to salvage his strategy to contest the election

In the United States, QAnon is struggling. The conspiracy theory is thriving abroad.

DEMOCRATIC OFFICIALS LIED ABOUT ROLE IN ALEX MORSE SMEAR, INTERNAL REPORT FINDS: A Democratic attorney urged students to leak vague allegations against Morse to Politico, the students told an internal party investigator

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