Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria von Kookoo sat down with ace reporter Steve Bannon to explain that the COVID pandemic is but a nefarious plot built around an innocuous seasonal flu. Well, what do you expect from a man who lies for a living? "The SARS-CoV-2 virus is nothing but a seasonal flu that could have been cured with existing treatments and effective prevention based on strengthening immune defenses....We cannot think that millions of doctors all over the world have lost their basic knowledge of the art of medicine, believing that a flu should be allowed to evolve into pneumonia and then be treated with tachypirin or by placing patients on ventilators. If they have done this, it is due to pressure – even to the point of blackmail – by health authorities over medical personnel, with the help of a scandalous campaign of media terrorism and with the support of Western leaders. Most of these leaders are members of a lobby – the World Economic Forum – that trained them and placed them at the highest levels of national and international institutions in order to be certain that those who govern would be obedient."

This makes my blood boil. The sheer negligence of throwing a detainee into the back of an empty van with no restraints. The callous disregard of his complaint and his injury, which was likely exacerbated by the way they dragged him out and propped him up with no neck bracing. New Haven is going to pay millions upon millions for this. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/29/us/connecticut-man-paralyzed-police-van/index.html

Gorsuch and his Catholic pals have ruled in favor of a Washington public high school football coach who was suspended for praying on the 50-yard line at the end of every game (Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, No. 21-418, Jun. 27, 2022). Gorsuch disingenuously asserts that the students weren't encouraged or expected to participate. Yeah, right. Imagine: you are a high school football player, the game has just ended, and your coach goes to the middle of the field to pray. Will you join him with your teammates, or will you hang back like some sicko commie atheist? This decision comes days after another case in which the Church decided government must give money to private religious schools.

Chris Murphy on MSNBC just now talking about "doing something meaningful" about gun control. Something meaningful would be ending your addiction to the filibuster and actually passing a law to save American lives. Instead, we will get another raft of half-measures that will probably fall to the axes of Trump's myriad federal judges.

(As Cleopatra once quipped.) I've been stuck four times with the Pfizer SARS-2-CoV vaccine with little trouble. But for the last two days, wondered why I felt like a freight train ran me over. Turns out it was Shingrix (shingles) Dose #2. The first shot was no biggie but this one put my immune system in "lock down the hatches" mode. Yesterday, I kept taking to my bed. Today my energy is better but not where it usually is. Still, I'm certain a couple of days of weirdness is preferable to a couple of weeks of dermal torture!

Velshi announces just now that Maddow will appear on MSNBC Monday nights only. The rest of the week, it will be called MSNBC Prime. It's actually fine with me. I started following Rachel around 2008 and she is much more valuable as a journalist than as a pundit following a party line.

Did y'all see that Deborah Birx, Trump's "White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator" is on the trail promoting her new book? Yup, she is the Scarf Lady who stood idly by while Trump peddled his predictably cockamamy fabrications about the pandemic. Once again proving: there is no downside for the evil and connected.