Afternoon Tea 11.12.2020 - Loyalty Tests

Trump’s election night party at the White House continues to rack up COVID cases, Cops Do Egregiously Bad Stuff, Take #478623, how to help in Georgia, and women continue to carry that weight. It’s Thursday, November 12th 2020, and this is the Tea.

Uline founders Liz and Dick Uihlein test positive for COVID-19. She has criticized coronavirus restrictions (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) It's looking like Trump's election night watch party was his second super spreader event. At this point you could probably convince me getting covid-19 is a loyalty test for what's left of the Orange Junta.

The President Tweeted Something Bad Again (BuzzfeedNews) & The Times Called Officials in Every State: No Evidence of Voter Fraud (New York Times) & There is no limit to what Trump might do, and we have to stop pretending there is (The Globe & Mail) If you didn't feel emotional whiplash about the election already, here are today's reads about the administration’s increasingly incoherent & antagonistic stance with reality.

How to Help in Georgia (Fair Fight) This Google doc is being continually updated with dates, volunteer needs, and ways to help no matter where you live in the world. Do it.

John Waters bequeaths his art collection to Baltimore Museum of Art, whose bathrooms will be named in his honor (Baltimore Sun) Unqualified Good News of the day. I won't be able to stop you but, Please do not cruise in the John Waters Memorial Bathrooms.

Louisville Metro Police worked with the county attorney's office to destroy 738,000 pieces of evidence and records, documenting in sex abuse by two officers (Courier-Journal) Anyone even remotely associated with this should never see the light of day again. Leave no remains or records of this department but ash, and salt the earth the building was built on.

Police response to Washington, D.C., stabbing another sign law enforcement favors Proud Boys (USA Today) Detailed list of the ways Proud Boys & cops have worked together, including and I swear I’m not making this up, how DC police drove Proud Boys around so they could point out “suspects” to the cops.

China’s female comedians turning patriarchy into punchlines (Inkstone) A wave of brave as hell women is rising. There are twin sister Chinese comediennes roasting the country’s fumbling leaders & patriarchal culture. Something that takes brass balls.

"Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women." (Culture Study) Anne Helen Petersen interviews Jessica Calarco, a sociologist who could tell you everything you’ve been ignoring when hear it from your wife/sister/female-identifying coworker.

Fans of a popular extreme-eating YouTuber were disturbed after she posted QAnon conspiracy theories (Insider) A “mukbang” is a style of streaming show popularized in South Korea where tiny people consume vast quantities of food. One of the really popular ones went off the QAnon deep end, blending a few different 2020 B-plots.

Jeopardy Petition Calls For LeVar Burton To Be The Next Host (Comicbook) I’m not a big fan of online petitions, as I don’t think they do very much to shift the decision-making needle. I’m throwing all that out for LeVar to become the next Jeopardy host.

Song of the Tea: It is so easy to give in to hopelessness right now. Don’t let them in.

Sometimes when you lose, you win.Yours, always,T