*Republicans are forcing Americans to return to dangerous workplaces.*

Some work is truly essential, and we need people to do it even though it can't be entirely safe. However, we have a duty to make their work as safe as we possibly can. If that has costs, the employers must pay those costs. If they pass those costs on to us, it is our responsibility to pay them.

Covid-19 is spreading so fast now in the US that testing capacity cannot be increased fast enough. It is taking people a week to get test results. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/20/nation/backlog-covid-19-tests-imperils-push-contain-infections/?et_rid=1841749494&s_campaign=metroheadlines:newsletter

Just after condemning the wrecker's sending thugs to grab people at random off the streets of Portland, Congressional Democrats passed a bill to continue funding for those thugs, with no restrictions against doing what the wrecker is having them do.

Methane is leaking from the ocean bottom near Antarctica.

*Playing video games doesn't lead to violent behavior, study shows.*