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Twin Peaks S03E08 (David Lynch, 2017)

Federal Judge Rules Top U.S. Lands Official Served Unlawfully for Over a Year

A federal judge in Montana has ordered William Perry Pendley, the acting director of the Bureau of Land Management, to leave the position after finding that he had served unlawfully as acting director for 424 days.

Mr. Pendley, who had held the job since he was “temporarily” appointed in July 2019, was also prohibited from using any authority to make decisions about federal lands. President…

Most Events in the Lincoln Memorial Are Banned. Trump Got an Exception.

Citing the “extraordinary crisis” of the coronavirus, the interior secretary relaxed the rules so the president could hold a Fox News interview in one of the nation’s most hallowed spaces.

Reactions:   “Not persuaded by Friedman, as he rather casually throws around the mortality rates. He seems dismissive. In saying the rate may only be 1%, even though that translates to 3,000,000+ dead. And he doesn’t discuss the point of the current isolation, which is to flatten the curve. His approach won’t do that. The approach at the moment appears to be a rather lengthy period of isolation, with a massive federal economic intervention to keep displaced workers afloat until that is over. Many, many people will still get the virus, but the medical care system will be able to care for everyone (hopefully) if the impact is spread out over months rather than weeks. And that will greatly reduce mortality.” “In addition, the approach takes no consideration of transmission of the vector into vulnerable populations by those persons 'taking their chances'. To add further, When you consider 'asymptomatic' exposure potential, this strikes me as very flawed approach; a lack of symptoms of some COVID19 infected people actively shedding virus, who are asymptomatic, (an unusual characteristic of this novel virus) means that sequestered, vulnerable populations actually could be at enhanced risk, ( I would say a probable) of unintentional exposure by their family and care providers compared to a 'general shelter in place' policy.”“It is going to be much, much worse than most expect. I anticipate a mortality rate to the entire US population of 1.5%.”