Major Fraud: President Trump, who continues to claim without evidence that the November election will be rife with mail fraud, suggested via Twitter that maybe the election should be postponed.

  Trump tweeted, “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history.” He asked, “Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???” Later in the day he said, “This election will be the most rigged election in history, if it happens.”

 It’s another signal that Trump will challenge the validity of the election if he loses.

  Election day is designated by law as the first Tuesday in November. Only Congress has the power to change that and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said it won’t happen.

  During the presidential primary season, states that converted largely to mail ballots had a larger turnout and in general elections a large turnout tends to favor Democrats. 

Viral News: Herman Cain, the former pizza chain executive who ran for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has died several weeks after being diagnosed with the coronavirus. He was 74.

  It’s unknown where Cain caught the virus, but he was among 

several thousand people, few of whom wore masks, who attended President Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa on June 20^th. Cain didn’t wear a mask at the rally either.

  Cain is now among 152,075 Americans who have died of the coronavirus,  

Econ 101: As the government reported the biggest dip in recorded economic history for the US, unemployment claims exceeded 1 million for the 19^th week in a row. 

 The Labor Department says 1.43 million people filed for state unemployment insurance benefits. 

  The economic shutdown and recession caused by the pandemic has wiped out five years of economic growth.

Doing Better: Former President Obama spoke eloquently yesterday at the funeral of John Lewis, the late congressman and civil rights fighter; “The life of John Lewis was in so many ways an exception. It vindicated the faith in our founding, redeemed that faith at most American of ideas, the idea that any of us ordinary people without rank, or wealth, or title, or fame can somehow point out the imperfections of this nation and come together and challenge the status quo. He said, “What a radical idea, what a revolutionary notion, this idea that any of us, ordinary people, a young kid from Troy can stand up to the powers and principalities and say, ‘No, this isn’t right. This isn’t true. This isn’t just. We can do better.’”

  In the spirit of Lewis, Obama spoke about voting rights, and vote suppression; “There are those in power who are doing their darnedest to discourage people from voting by closing polling locations, and targeting minorities and students with restrictive ID laws, and attacking our voting rights with surgical precision, even undermining the postal service in the run up to an election that’s going to be dependent on mail in ballots so people don’t get sick.”

Religious Objection: The US government has called for Pakistan to overhaul its blasphemy laws after the murder in a courtroom of an American citizen on trial for claiming to be a prophet. TheAmerican, Tahir Ahmad Naseem, 57, was on trial in Peshawar when he was shot six times Wednesday by a 19-year-old local resident.

  The Pakistani government has never executed anyone for blasphemy, but some previous defendants have been killed by mobs. The US State Department issued a statement saying, “We urge Pakistan to take immediate action and pursue reforms that will prevent such a shameful tragedy from happening again.”

The Bulletin Board: The federal government has given up trying to stop President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen from writing a tell-all book about his experience with Trump. In legal filings Cohen has said his book would reveal Trump as a racist and offer details about “the president’s behavior behind closed doors.” —  The Hong Kong government announced it will postpone the city’s September legislative election for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic. It’s a blow to the pro-democracy opposition that had hoped for a big win. — As locked-in Americans shop from home, Amazon’s profit in the most recent quarter doubled to  $5.2 billion.

Fishing for a Story: After years of objections and protest, Norway’s most famous work of public art, a concrete mural by Pablo Picasso and Norwegian artist Carl Nesjar, has been removed to clear the way for demolition of a government building damaged in a terrorist attack. The mural called “The Fishermen” done in Picasso’s one-dimensional style portrays three fishermen in a small boat casting a net.

  Another Picasso mural, “The Seagull,” was removed from inside on Tuesday.

  Despite promises that the artworks will be incorporated in a new building, opponents have claimed the entire project is not necessary and it’s a sacrilege to move the artworks. Gro Nesjar Greve said her father, who died in 2015, was distraught when he first heard of plans to remove the mural. She told The NY Times, “This was his main life achievement, and they are just taking it down.” 

Mask Discrimination: A lot of Americans who refuse to wear masks to stop the spread of the coronavirus claim it’s a matter of personal freedom.

  Pennsylvania state Rep. Rus Diamond, an anti-masker, went a step further claiming that people who refuse to wear masks are targets of discrimination. 

 Diamond lamented in a statement that “unmasked individuals still are being denied access to public accommodations in places in Pennsylvania,” adding that he has “no room in my heart for hatred.”

  Diamond wrote, “We all need to foster that spirit of acceptance and welcoming to unmasked individuals and celebrate the wonderful diversity of our commonwealth.” 

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